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When Washington’s splendid Union Station opened its doors in 1908, the glorious structure epitomized capital stylishness. Today, restored and refurbished, the station is again a hub of activity where the world’s most famous and infamous people meet–and often collide. Now, in Margaret Truman’s new Capital Crime novel, this landmark locale becomes the scene of a sensational shooting whose consequences ricochet from seedy bars to the halls of Congress.
Historic Union Station means nothing to the elderly man speeding south on the last lap of what turns out to be a one-way journey from Tel Aviv to D.C.–on a train that will soon land him at Gate A-8 and, moments later, at St. Peter’s Gate. This weary traveler, whose terminal destination is probably hell, is Louis Russo, former mob hit man and government informer. Two men are at the station to meet him. One is Richard Marienthal, a young writer whose forthcoming book is based on Russo’s life. The other is the man who kills him.
Russo has returned to help promote Marienthal’s book, which, although no one has been allowed to read it, already has some people shaking in their Gucci boots. The powerful fear the contents will not only expose organized crime’s nefarious business, but also a top-secret assignment abroad that Russo once masterminded for a very-high-profile Capitol Hill client. As news of Russo’s murder rockets from the MPD to the FBI and the CIA, from Congress to the West Wing, the final chapter of the story begins its rapid-fire unfolding.
In addition to the bewildered Marienthal and his worried girlfriend, there is an array of memorable characters: rock-ribbed right-wing Senator Karl Widmer; ruthless New York publisher Pamela Warren; boozy MPD Detective Bret Mullin; shoe-shine virtuoso Joe Jenks; dedicated presidential political adviser Chet Fletcher; and President Adam Parmele himself–not to mention freelance snoops, blow-dried climbers, and a killer or two. There’s no place like the nation’s capital, and as her myriad fans know, Margaret Truman always gets it right. Murder at Union Station is a luxury express, nonstop delight.
From the Hardcover edition.
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When Washington’s splendid Union Station opened its doors in 1908, the glorious structure epitomized capital stylishness. Today, restored and refurbished, the station is again a hub of activity where the world’s most famous and infamous people meet—and often collide. Now, in Margaret Truman’s new Capital Crime novel, this landmark locale becomes the scene of a sensational shooting whose consequences ricochet from seedy bars to the halls of Congress.
Historic Union Station means nothing to the elderly man speeding south on the last lap of what turns out to be a one-way journey from Tel Aviv to D.C.—on a train that will soon land him at Gate A-8 and, moments later, at St. Peter’s Gate. This weary traveler, whose terminal destination is probably hell, is Louis Russo, former mob hit man and government informer. Two men are at the station to meet him. One is Richard Marienthal, a young writer whose forthcoming book is based on Russo’s life. The other is the man who kills him.
Russo has returned to help promote Marienthal’s book, which, although no one has been allowed to read it, already has some people shaking in their Gucci boots. The powerful fear the contents will not only expose organized crime’s nefarious business, but also a top-secret assignment abroad that Russo once masterminded for a very-high-profile Capitol Hill client. As news of Russo’s murder rockets from the MPD to the FBI and the CIA, from Congress to the West Wing, the final chapter of the story begins its rapid-fire unfolding.
In addition to the bewildered Marienthal and his worried girlfriend, there is an array of memorable characters: rock-ribbed right-wing Senator Karl Widmer; ruthless New York publisher Pamela Warren; boozy MPD Detective Bret Mullin; shoe-shine virtuoso Joe Jenks; dedicated presidential political adviser Chet Fletcher; and President Adam Parmele himself—not to mention freelance snoops, blow-dried climbers, and a killer or two. There’s no place like the nation’s capital, and as her myriad fans know, Margaret Truman always gets it right. Murder at Union Station is a luxury express, nonstop delight.
Customer Reviews:
I REALLY LIKED THIS ONE.......2007-02-10
This is the second book that I have read my Ms. Truman and I enjoyed it a bunch. It's about a writer and a hit man returning from Israel who is gunned down who was helping to promote the book. I love the characters and the story. It really kept me intrigued. I can't wait to read more from her. She is a great mystery writer and I hope that she continues to write more great books.
One of Truman's Best.......2006-07-04
I have been reading Margaret Truman for nearly 15 years now and I love her mysteries set in Washington, D.C. She has an excellent way of capturing the all of the politics and intrigue that the city has to offer. Her characters are well-researched and it is easy to escape for hours into one of her plots.
Murder is Reading This Book!.......2006-03-30
This book is about a former mafioso in the witness protection program living in exile in Israel. He agrees to be the subject of a tell-all book. When he comes back to the U.S. to testify regarding details that could shake the U.S. government, he is murdered and the author of the book is trying to find out why he was murdered. The book drags and the plot is found wanting.
It's teh Stoopid!.......2006-03-10
I listened to the first chapter on audio and could feel those precious IQ points dribbling out my ears. The writing is so pretentious and the editing so not there, I found myself wishing ALL of these characters could die very slow and painful deaths, being force-fed chicken nuggets at the subterranean food court at Union Station.
Insider's view of Washington D.C........2005-08-26
Margaret Truman knows enough about the inner workings of the U.S. Government to make her Capital Crimes Novels ring true. In this installment, a young writer named Richard Marienthal is eagerly looking forward to the publication of his novel which chronicles the revelations of a mob hit man named Russo. Russo comes to Washington D.C. to testify at some hearings, but before he reveals anything, he is murdered. Russo's information, which is also described in Marienthal's book, is potentially very damaging to the incumbent U.S. President, and to organized crime. For Marienthal and his friends, it's hard to know who are the good guys and who are the bad guys. Marienthal still possesses the tapes which he used to write the book and he realizes that he and the tapes are in danger from several different people. Not wishing to risk his life or that of his fiance, he has to make some difficult choices. This is a good book and has a reasonable amount of suspense and intrigue. The ending seems a bit too neat and sudden, but all in all, it is a good read.
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Realm of the Ring Lords exposes the magical world - and historical fact - behind the grail and ring legends. In the course of this breathtaking exploration, Gardner demonstrates the historical truths and significance behind much of European folklore and fairy tales - ranging from Dracula to Santa Claus, from Robin Hood to Lorna Doone, and the grail quest to the Lord of the Rings. Most important, he demonstrates how these basic themes have consistently represented the best and brightest aspirations of humanity.
Customer Reviews:
Realm of the Ring Lords.......2007-02-27
Absolutely brilliant! Gardner helps the reader into the origin of mankind, where history and myth blend together perfectly: fairies, angels and the ancient fight between good and evil come out of fancy stories to find a place in our earliest forgotten times.
Page after page the truth, you have always known but you were not aware of, becomes apparent.
Nothing to do with new age or second rate archaelogy, this is a deep historical investigation. After reading this book, it will be impossible to resist buying other Gardner's books...
Fails to deliver on the title.......2006-11-22
Waste of money. Gardner is resting on his laurels. There is so much that could be done with this title, but it was not. Instead we get a recital of stuff already said elsewhere not particularly related to the extensive lore which Tolkien drew upon. Way too little to do with the Realms of the Ring Lords, as if he was knocking off a book to exploit the popularity of Tolkien.
Pity, I was expecting more.
Alot Of Material Here!.......2006-08-29
This book begins with a look into Tolkien's books and the relationships to distant history. Information and the process of the author's thoughts drift to linking the Ring lord culture into a roller coaster ride through almost every distant european and middle eastern culture. Lots of this material is well presented and factual. Some is also conjecture on the author's behalf. All is well presented and adventureous to read.
Awesome read!.......2006-07-25
Lawrence Gardner ranks among the best for me. As with any author, I don't agree with 100% of what he says, but he's pretty dead on and has certainly done his homework. He definitely opened up new ideas and new avenues for me in my own interests and research.
Annunaki Heritage.......2005-04-18
I am amazed that with our short lifespans that we can even function! Perhaps, we as a race cannot, look at current world conditions. The book makes clear that the race is young,we better grow up or the "gods" will end their experiment with self goverment. the implications are enormous,will they further improve the race,again ?
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- Great Historical Fiction!
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The Angel and the Ring: A Supernatural Adventure (The Guardian Angel)
Sigmund Brouwer
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In this first book of The Guardian Angel series the story’s narrator, Pelagius the angel, introduces us to life in 1364 A.D. and to Brin, a teenage gypsy who is despised by his people because his mother died of the plague and his father was a follower of God.
This powerless teen’s future seems hopeless until a hooded stranger presents him with a challenge and also a warning to beware of “the enemy.” Thrown into a dangerous adventure, Brin must choose good over evil in order to find his earthly father’s love and his heavenly Father’s will. This story will captivate readers ages 9–12 as they join Brin on his path to discovering what extreme faith is all about.
Customer Reviews:
Great Historical Fiction!.......2005-11-16
I really loved the book! The angel that narrates the book is very funny. The action and the adventure were really awesome!
The book was so good that I couldn't put it down! The author Sigmund Brouwer, did an EXCELLENT job on the book.The story was great! THE ANGEL AND THE RING deserves better than five stars!
Customer Reviews:
This is a good book but not her best work........1999-06-09
It takes a little to get into the book. But after about two or three chapters the story finally get going. I didn't like the way she put so many different story lines in the same book with no apparent connection at all until the end when finally the characters reveal the secret. It's no fun if I can't at least try to figure out the mystery.
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- Crocodile Charlies and the Holy Grail
- Academia brought to the real world
- This book is fantastic
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Crocodile Charlie & The Holy Grail: How to find your own answers at work & in life
John Kolm , and
Peter Ring
Manufacturer: Penguin Global
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Customer Reviews:
Crocodile Charlies and the Holy Grail.......2006-02-19
This book truly hits you by knowing what struggles you face always. It is easy to read, yet still very intelligent. I maybe a little bias towards it, since it was written by the husband of a good friend of mine. But I did not know how smart and insightful he was until I read this book. Get it to be helped with everything.
Marilou Fallis
Academia brought to the real world.......2005-08-24
Having read books like IN SEARCH OF EXCELLENCE and teadiously gone through the academic minutia, this book has brought it to the real world. I could NOT put this one down. I am glad someone finally put it in such a format that folks can read without having to weed through the technical mumbo jumbo
This book is fantastic.......2004-08-25
Wow! When my boss gave me this I was expecting another crappy management book that treats you like you're ten years old. This book is fantastic! A great story - I stayed up reading till three this morning - and some real useful practical content to boot. I loved it! I think this will become the Harry Potter of the self-help and leadership world. Every company in the world should give a copy to each of their employees. I can't recommend this highly enough!
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An Unabridged production. 5 hours on 4 CDs.
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The magical history of the Ring Lords, alluded to in J.R.R. Tolkein's The Lord of the Rings, has been largely consigned to legend and half-remembered battles between good and evil. Shrouded in supernatural enigma, its legacy lives on in fascinating tales of fairies, elves, witches, and vampires.
The most popular Grail stories relate to Arthurian tales of Guinevere's golden Ring and the great iron-clad Ring of Camelot--the Knights of the Round Table. When this Ring was broken, the land fell into chaos and the forces of darkness reigned over the earth, starlight, and forest.
Why do we sense deeper truths behind the mysteries of the Ring and the Grail? Why have their common enhancements been distorted and hidden?
The ancient guardians of our culture have never featured positively in academic teachings, for they were the Shining Ones: the real progenitors of our heritage. Instead, their reality was quashed from the earliest days of Inquisitional suppression and the literal diminution of their figures caused a parallel diminishing of their history. In truth, however, the sovereign legacy of our culture comes from a place and time that might just as well be called Middle-earth as by any other name. It lingers beyond the twilight portal in the long distant Realm of the Ring Lords.
Customer Reviews:
A guide to the Hitchhiker's Guide.......2004-04-01
OK, after two Pangalactic Gargleblasters, I think I can get something about sci-fi writer Neil Gaiman's nonfiction work, Don't Panic, which chronicles the evolution of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy through its incarnations as radio series, novel, computer game, towel, and TV series. Due to a totally original idea, well, kind of, as he got the idea lying on the grass thinking that there should be something like The Hitchhiker's Guide To Galaxy, HGTTG and its sequels became another dollop of Britannia that was rabidly slurped up by USA-ers that they did the Beatles and Monty Python. But it also explains the success of HH, as it came out in the wake of Star Wars and Close Encounters making sci-fi acceptable entertainment for mass consumption.
It reveals that Adams was quite a talent at an early age, from his short story submission for The Eagle at age 12, to a hilarious very Pythonseque Kamikaze Briefing sketch included here that I really enjoyed that he did pre-HH. His secret? "Writing comes easy. All you have to do is stare at a blank piece of paper until your forehead bleeds." Thank goodness I had those paper towels to clean up my computer screen.
Part of this is a biography of Adams, from his days at Cambridge, to his wilderness years doing odd jobs, including being a bodyguard for some Arabs, and doing collaborations with other writers, many of which fell through. Despite initially being mistaken for being the sixth Python member, he did work with Graham Chapman, but that didn't work out, as Chapman was struggling with alcoholism at the time. His time as Doctor Who's script editor from 1978-1979, and the three stories he personally wrote for the series, is explained, and the reason why he hated being script editor. But there is also a synopsis of the stillborn Dr. Who and the Krikkitmen at the back of the book, parts of which later became Life, The Universe, And Everything, the knotty but still well-written third book.
Adams reveals to have some sensitive yet artistic side of him. He doesn't seem to like remembering about writing his books because of some bad memories and hardships he had to go through. And time-oriented is NOT the word to describe him. For writing my and his personal favourite in the series, The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe, he had to be locked up in an apartment in an ascetic-like existence for four weeks, with Paul Simon's One Trick Pony as his only companion.
Neither is deadline a word found in Adams' dictionary. Apart from only doing three essays during his time at Cambridge, there was even a time during the second series of the radio programme that "they were recording the show in one part of the studio, while I was in another part of the studio actually writing the next scene."(!!!)
Mixed inbetween are script excerpts from dialogue never used in the radio series. There's also a list of the most asked questions to Adams, of which most of them are either brief and to the point or totally deranged, but he did answer one I wondered, which was the Dire Straits song he referred to in So Long..., which was "Tunnel of Love" from Making Movies.
This goes up to the first Dirk Gently novel, done in 1987, and it's a good read for those into HH or wanting to learn about the story and history about HH after reading the series. Whoops, time for another Pangalactic Gargleblaster and a slice of Arcturan Megadonkey.
Well, it was just another planet.......2002-05-31
damn, this book was funny as hell! the main character was always getting into screwy situations, it seemed as if everything was going wrong for him and then the best thing happened, the planet blew up. maybe it wasnt the best thing, but it shure was a turning point for him. after the planet goes the story delivers non-stop laughs and the craziest things happen, this story keeps you giggling and interested until the very last word. i would reccomend this book to someone looking for a really un-serious story of complete mayhem and calamity.
Warts-and-everything story of the creation of the Guide.......2001-06-04
For anyone interested in how the Hitchhiker's Guide came into being, this is essential reading. For anyone interested in the evolution of a great idea into a radio series, album, TV series, computer game, five books, and more than one attempt at a film script, this is equally vital.
I found it particularly helpful in providing explanations of why:
1. episodes five and six of the first radio series have a different style to the wonderful episodes 1 to 4.
2. the second radio series was so sloppy in comparison to the first.
It's fascinating to read Douglas Adams' original summary of the Hitchhiker concept. (Goodness knows why Arther Dent was originally going to be called Alaric!) It was depressing to read how Adams and John Lloyd (co-writer of episodes 5 and 6) fell out when Adams changed his mind about co-writing the first book, but encouraging that they put their differences behind them and went on to collaborate on works like 'The Meaning of Liff'.
There are plenty of bits of unused dialogue spread across the pages of this book. It is partly a biography of Adams and partly a biography of the Hitchhikers Guide itself. There is a BBC-produced double cassette tape which also tells the story of the Hitchhiker but tends to gloss over most of the disagreements that Adams had with various BBC colleagues and publishers.
I would strongly recommend Hitchhiker fans to get this book.
Fun and informative.......1999-05-14
Let's face it. The "Hitchhiker's Guide" books aren't well written. . . but they sure are fun to read!!!! If you want to why the first book has some problems with cohesions, read this book. If you want to know what influenced the increasingly misnamed trilogy, read this book. It is worth it! (and besides, it is written by Neil Gaiman who's work bears Adam's influence!)
hi.......1999-03-29
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Book Description
An insider's guide to the recipes, ingredients, and traditions that define international city cuisine, the Foods of the World series is the definitive cookbook collection for anyone passionate about food and travel. Richly photographed, with over 45 authentic recipes and in-depth culinary features, each book brings readers closer to the best eating experiences each city has to offer from a culinary authority Americans trust.
Barcelona is a city known for its innovative and dynamic culinary scene. From Tomato-Rubbed Bread to Fideuà to Crema Catalana—each brings the taste of Barcelona to your table.
Key Features:
* Recreate the rich heritage of Catalonian cuisine at home with Grilled Green Onions with Romesco Sauce or Stone-Cooked Lamb Chops with Herb Oil
* Learn how the geographical location of Barcelona, between the Pyrenees mountains and the Mediterranean, has shaped the way the city eats, with favorites such as cured meats, olive oil, artisanal cheeses, wine, fresh seafood, and seasonal produce
* Uncover some of Europe's most traditional and contemporary dining experiences among Barcelona's marvelous diversity of restaurants
Customer Reviews:
A good summary of Catalan food.......2007-07-12
I am from Barcelona and there are two things I really appreciate about this book. It allows me to cook our food with US products, which is not always easy. On the other hand, it serves as an introduction to our food and our way of life. It is always a handy present for my non Catalan friends.
Not worth it!!.......2005-09-24
This book looks beautiful, but that is not enough for a cookbook. The recipes should taste good and work, too and they do not in this book. We could not even eat the Chicken and Ham Croquettes, the mixture should have congealed into a thick paste, but it did not, it was runny and bland tasting. The chocolate truffle cake looks and sounds great, but is dry and dissapointing. The Cream of Lentil Soup was bland, the topping added a bit of flavor, but not fabulous. The Flatbread with Eggpland, Peppers, and Olives was the best thing we made, but the flatbread needed more salt for flavor.
Search for another Spanish cookbook if you really want to cook, but buy this one, if you would like to learn about the food and look at pretty pictures!
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- Murder on the Iditarod Trail (Alaska Mysteries)
- Murder Runs in the Family: A Southern Sisters Mystery
- Murder Shoots the Bull: A Southern Sisters Mystery (Southern Sisters Mysteries)
- Murder With Puffins (A Meg Langslow Mystery)
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