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Authorized Personnel Only (Alias)
Paul Ruditis Manufacturer: Simon Spotlight Entertainment ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1416902155 |
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For Your Eyes Only
The contents of the dossiers herein are top-secret government files. This information must be kept completely confidential to ensure not only the safety of the field agents who risk their lives daily but also the continued effectiveness of the agency.
Enclosed is a comprehensive collection of Agent Sydney Bristow's mission briefings, beginning with her time working as a double agent for SD-6 and the CIA. These files chronicle the downfall of SD-6, the rise of the Covenant, and the creation of Authorized Personnel Only, a secret branch of the CIA that's existence is at once sanctioned and denied by the federal government.
In addition to these briefings, the attached files contain profiles detailing each agent's personal history and psych evaluation, comprehensive analyses of the members of other U.S. intelligence agencies and enemies of the state, a combined SD-6/CIA ops tech report on the gadgets supplied for various missions, mission maps, and the official report on Renaissance prophet Milo Rambaldi, including a catalog of all collected artifacts and deciphered codes leading up to his apocalyptic prophecy.
Should these CIA files fall into the wrong hands, the results could be disastrous for the United States and its allies. Proceed with the utmost caution.
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Disappointing.......2006-10-23
A true Alias dream guide.......2006-01-28
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Authorized Personnel Only
Barbara D'Amato Manufacturer: Forge Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0812590163 |
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An outbreak of E. coli has thinned the detective ranks of the Chicago police department, so officer Suze Figueroa has been detached to temporary duty investigating a couple of bodies that turned up under the elevated train tracks. The location is a stone's throw from the precinct headquarters, and the killings are similar enough in modus operandi to make Suze wonder if there's a serial killer preying on the homeless. She's still working her regular caseload, which includes a pickpocket who's been targeting women shoppers at the luxury department stores on the Miracle Mile and a thief who robbed a currency exchange. And this is not to mention managing a few complications on the home front, including her sister Sheryl's agonizingly slow recovery from a serious accident and a dangerous pederast who's hiding in her attic. The plucky policewoman's personal and professional lives collide with violent and startling results in the penultimate pages of this somewhat unfocused crime thriller. Barbara D'Amato's pacing isn't as strong here as it's been in her previous outings (Good Cop, Bad Cop, Killer.app), and the murderer's identity is telegraphed well in advance of the denouement. What's more important, the reader never gets under Suze's skin enough to know what motivates her. But it's a good enough effort to keep D'Amato's hometown fans in Chicago happy until the next one comes along. --Jane AdamsBook Description
For Chicago cop Suze Figueroa, home is a sanctuary, a quiet refuge from the crime, corruption, and tragedy she encounters everyday on the job. The creaky old Victorian house she shares with her little boy, her invalid sister, and her sister's family seems far removed from the threats and dangers of the mean city streets... . . or so she believes.The truth is far more terrifying, for, unknown to Suze, a stranger has moved into the house: an intruder who waits in the attic by day and prowls her home at night, spying on both the unsuspecting adults and the defenseless children. While Suze spends her work day tracking down an elusive serial killer, she has no idea that a much more personal danger lives under her own roof, eating her food, handling her gun, and watching her loved ones......Strips of yellow tape may keep curious bystanders away from crimes scenes, but nothing so simple can protect Suze and her family from the menace that has invaded the privacy--and the safety--of their own home.Customer Reviews:
Can a Police Procedural be cozy?.......2003-04-20
Figueroa and Bennis are characters transported from a British cozy to the mean streets of Chicago, given some absolutely delightful dialogue and a fine-tuned sense of justice, and set loose to wreak havoc on the bad guys. She and Bennis come down to the wire in solving one crime, while another is taking place right in Figueroa's home.
D'Amato takes a solid plot, compelling characters, and an exciting location, and sprinkles in some terrifying antagonists to make "Authorized Personnel Only" a great read.
homeless invasion.......2001-01-23
Great police procedural.......2000-12-10
Suze and Norm are temporally promoted to help work the crisis. The brass assigns them two nasty cases: a serial killer and a pediophile. The murderer uses the homeless as his prey while the molester relishes attacking pre-teen aged girls.
Even more now than when she patrolled, Suze sees her home as her castle of normalcy, a place for her to relax and regain her soul. Unbeknownst to the dedicated cop is that the pediophile has moved into her home living in her attic while learning more about his adversary with a plan to punish her for disturbing one of his felonies.
The subplots starring a serial killer and a pediophile sound trite as they have been overkilled over the past few years. However, in the hands of the award winning Barbara D'Amato both themes seem so fresh readers will believe AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY has introduced new concepts. The story line is a combination police procedural and thriller, but what makes it so good is the depth to the characters, especially Suze, whose professional and personal lives are opened up like a book for the reader to peruse and understand. Rarely do police novels attain that level of excellence as this tale does.
Harriet Klausner
Most thrilling police procedural novel ever!.......2000-12-01
This book has every indication of becoming a smash motion picture. Remember, Eric told you so.
Meanwhile, why wait for the movie to come out? I loved the author's previous KILLER.APP. This new book is fabulous!
Procedural fans will enjoy this book.......2000-11-30
I missed the heart-pounding suspense of D'Amato's previous Chicago cop books, but I did enjoy AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY as a police procedural. The author has obviously done a tremendous amount of research and I learned a lot. As a longtime fan, I must say that any D'Amato is worth reading -- she's a solid, reliably good crime writer.
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Authorized Personnel Only
Barbara D'Amato Manufacturer: Forge Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OTLPPG |
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Authorized Personnel Only
Paul Ruditis Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000K1ZXII |
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Dragons of Triumph (Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, Module DL14)
Douglas Niles Manufacturer: Wizards of the Coast ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0880380969 |
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Triumph of the Dragon (Brothers of the Dragon)
Robin Wayne Bailey Manufacturer: Roc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0451454375 |
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comparatively disappointing.......2007-01-06
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Total Dragon Ball Z
Triumph Books Manufacturer: Triumph Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1572434163 |
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Total Dragonball Z will take readers on a memorable adventure into the amazingly popular world of Dragonball. The book will cover the entire spectrum of Dragonball, Dragonball Z & Dragonball GT, Including:* Character bios
* Cartoon episode guides
* Strategy guide for tradiing card game
* Price guide for collector cards
* Prices, photos, and information on all the best dragonball action figures, toys and other merchandise.
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Total Dragon Ball Z.......2007-03-17
Really Good Informatin on DBZ.......2004-11-29
Not an extremly good book.......2003-01-14
A nice try, but much work is needed........2002-11-19
Let's start with the errors. I'm convinced that the authors are little more than American DBZ viewers who have seen a Japanese episode once or twice. The information looks like it was copied directly from a website, complete with mispellings and all. The "biographies" are short, and rarely state anything meaningful or interesting ("Bra is the daughter of Vegeta and Bulma"). Yet another problem : Is it just me, or do poser magazines struggle to get real images? Numerous (100+) of the images in this book are terrible screenshots that are blurry, fuzzy, or grainy (Many so terrible you can hardly make out what it's a picture of).
The synopsis of Dragonball/Dragonball Z/Dragonball GT is not very good either. The author's have a rather snobby view of American fans and a high view of themselves who have, quote, "Seen the REAL version [of DBZ]". Pojo, get off of it. Not even the card game guide is good, with poor strategies and being very outdated. I'm not even gonna start on the pathetic 3-D images thing.
That said, I really do praise Pojo for trying. It's much better than anything Becket or some other magazine company has tried to put out. However, hopefully they will revise it, knowing that DBZ fans are one of the most difficult to please.
Here's the bottom line, for the type of people who would spend $9 on a magazine, I think they will be very pleased. Kids/Teens who are fans of the English version of Dragon Ball Z and are not picky about tiny details will be satisfied. I'm just warning those would consider this a valid source for information. In short, information accurate enough to satisfy those who don't know better, but not on par with some of the stuff that can be found on the internet.
I'm now know Every Thing About DragonBall Z!.......2002-10-16
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Triumph of the Dragon
Robin Wayne Bailey Manufacturer: New Amer Library ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: B000R90YT6 |
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Dragons of Triumph X 6 Pack
Manufacturer: Antioch ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0782491383 |
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The bible of natural medicine" (Larry Dossey, M.D.), Natural Health, Natural Medicine is a comprehensive resource for everything you need to know to maintain optimum health and treat common ailments. This landmark book incorporates Dr. Weil's theories of preventive health maintenance and alternative healing into one extremely useful and readable reference, featuring general diet and nutrition information as well as simple recipes, answers to readers" most pressing questions, a catalogue of home remedies, invaluable resources, and hundreds of practical tips. This new edition includes up-to-the-minute scientic ndings and has been expanded to provide trustworthy advice about low-carb diets, hormone replacement therapy, Alzheimer's, attention decit disorder, reux disease, autism, type 2 diabetes, erectile dysfunction, the u, and much more.Customer Reviews:
Worth Reading.......2007-09-13
We're all going to die!!.......2007-03-08
a great book .......2007-01-14
Right On.......2006-10-24
Great Reference on obtaining and maintaining good health.......2006-06-09
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Andrew Weil: Harvard hatched a gullible guru.(Natural Health, Natural Medicine: The Complete Guide to Wellness and Self-care for Optimum Health)(Book Review) : An article from: Skeptical Inquirer
Harriet Hall Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000E4FNBS Release Date: 2006-01-09 |
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This digital document is an article from Skeptical Inquirer, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2006. The length of the article is 969 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Vermont is the home of The Cooks Garden, America's premier organic seed catalogue. Since 1984, The Cook's Garden has been the ultimate source for kitchen gardeners seeking European-style greens, heirloom vegetables, radiant flowers, and pungent herbs. Each winter more than one million eager gardeners await the arrival of The Cook's Garden catalogue, looking forward to reading about new seed varieties as well as reliable classics.
Successfully growing vegetables, herbs, and flowers is just part of any gardening challenge, but what do you do once they are harvested?
Ellen Ogder's recipes are one of the most delightful aspects of The Cooks Garden catalogue. As Deborah Madison, bestselling author of Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone and Local Flavors writes in her foreword: "These recipes, which are entirely guided by the garden and choice of seeds that grow in it, bridge the gap between a dream on a page promised by a seed packet and how the seeds can be used in the kitchen."
Ellen's recipes are simple yet elegant and speak of freshness whether you harvest ingredients from your own garden or select them at your local store -- flavorful soups such as Zesty Lemon Cucumber Soup and Brilliant Butternut Bisque, salad combinations such as Arugula and Roasted Pear Salad, and Leaf Peeper's Carrot and Red Cabbage Salad, main courses such as Savory Vegetables in Polenta Crust or Herbed Chicken with Cider Sauce. Too many tomatoes or pears? Ellen offers ideas for preserving the bounty of any garden.
Illustrated with full-color woodcuts by Caldecott winner Mary Azarian and packed with topics from Ellen's favorite culinary herbs to favorite autumn vegetables, From The Cook's Garden offers a yearround garden of culinary delights.
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A spectacular treat!.......2003-12-19
Other than its high production values, what is so special about this book? It presents an extraodinarily wide variety of produce as delectable dinner-time treats. For me, it gives depth to my already broad repertoire of veggie dishes. As an added bonus, I can give this cookbook to our friends and family who are reluctant to try cardoons or don't know that beets and chard come in a rainbow of colors. Suddenly, it's OK to give them strange veggies, because they know what to do with them. For those of you who don't know the joy of strolling through your own kitchen garden to decide what's for dinner, you can now stroll with confidence through the trendiest green grocer or farmers market, pick up what ever is freshest, and in season, and head home knowing you can find a delightful way to prepare and enjoy your find.
We've tried several of the recipes. They're yummy! All are inspiring.
And if you decide to try growing your own, remember there are those who farm many acres that started with a single grow box for fresh salad greens on the deck of their townhouse.
This makes eating your vegetables a joy!
foody heaven.......2003-10-09
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From the Cookandapos;s Garden: Recipes for Cooks Who Like to Garden, Gardeners Who Like to Cook, and Everyone Who Wishes They Had a Garden
Ellen Ecker Odgen Manufacturer: Morrow Cookbooks ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OELA3I |
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