Move to Strike

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Defense attorney Nina Reilly has bad luck with men: one marriage ended abruptly, and another ended in tragedy. Still, her misfortunes with the opposite sex are nothing compared to the trouble she has finding a decent client. In her sixth outing, Move to Strike, Nina's defending a minor who's a major pain: Nikki Zack, a mouthy, rebellious teenager who's being tried as an adult in the murder of her uncle, a wealthy plastic surgeon. Like a lot of people in Lake Tahoe, Nikki disliked Bill Sykes, who showed both greed and snobbery to Nikki and her scatterbrained mother, Daria. He discouraged their familial overtures except when he cheated them in a land deal. Nevertheless, Nikki claims she didn't kill him, even though she was spotted sneaking around his pool on the night of the murder, and the prosecution's case against her is based on a blood sample that indicates she wielded the murder weapon. Nina is particularly struck by two strange facts: Sykes's son Chris was killed in a plane crash at almost the same time Sykes died, and Sykes's widow, Beth, is almost abnormally quick to front the money for her niece's defense, no questions asked.

Nina knows Nikki saw something or someone at Sykes's house, but she's not sure whether Nikki's protecting her sleazy, housebreaking boyfriend or Daria, whose vagueness is almost too extreme to believe. Nikki is placed under house arrest, but that's not enough to keep her--or Nina and her son Bob--safe when a stranger starts calling. When the treasure trove of unimpressive-looking rocks that Nikki took from Sykes's underwater hiding place turns out to be something completely unexpected, the ring of suspects widens and danger creeps closer. Nina teams with Paul van Wagoner, the investigator (familiar from Acts of Malice and previous Nina Reilly mysteries) she can't quite seem to disentangle herself from, to help sort the loose ends from the dead ends. And there are plenty of both.

The O'Shaughnessy sisters (Perri is a pen name for Pamela and Mary) are taking new risks and increasing the stakes with every book, and Move to Strike shows they can pull it off. The characters are deftly drawn and the plotting masterfully complex. The pacing falls a bit short of heart-stopping; the courtroom scenes serve to up the stakes for Nikki, yet don't really add much tension. But this series is still young and keeps getting better and better. Grisham and Turow, check your rear-view mirrors: there's a new writer in the fast lane. --Barrie Trinkle

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New York Times bestselling author Perri O'Shaughnessy takes the courtroom thriller to breathtaking new heights in Move to Strike, a page-turning masterpiece of suspense that brings back attorney Nina Reilly, hailed by critics as "one of the most interesting heroines in legal thrillers today" (San Jose Mercury News).

Nina Reilly thought she'd seen it all. An attorney and single mother, Nina isn't afraid to tackle the toughest cases and trickiest defenses. But she is wholly unprepared for her latest client—sixteen-year-old Nicole Zack, rebel, thief, and best friend of Nina's teenage son, Bob.

Did Nikki steal something from her uncle, a prominent plastic surgeon, then kill him in cold blood? To find out, Nina calls in Paul van Wagoner, a P.I. and ex-lover whose bravado conceals a troubling personal secret.

As Paul investigates the eerily coincidental death of the surgeon's son— killed in a plane crash the same night his father was murdered—Nina sorts through the twisting lies surrounding Nikki, uncovering a seething mystery, some enraged former patients, and two very old crimes.

Finally, Nina must confront the central question she must answer in order to save her client: What did Nikki really see the night of her uncle's murder?

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This One's a Strike.......2006-10-20

This was my first experience with this author. The book had a fascinating story line and an ending that tied up all the loose ends. I sure didn't have that letdown feeling when the last page was turned. I have two more of her books. Can't wait to read them.

Another good one.......2005-08-28

These sister/authors have produced another great book. This book has just the right mix of intrigue, law, humor, romance/sexual tension, and human emotion. I think the authors have done another good job with character development--each character was very believable. Nina is inherently a good person but the authors have given her "grace" by providing human flaws. I have enjoyed a few books by these sisters and haven not been disappointed yet. I read this book on a recent cruise and actually spent time in the stateroom and on deck reading this entertaining book rather than spend time in the casino, playing bingo, or doing some of the other available activities. I recommend this book to anyone who values believeable plots and characters.

Move to Strike.......2002-11-26

Its addictive, we can't seem to get enough of the Nina Series. Finaly, Paul was given a more important role, and the author explored those very intriguing and mysterious layers of the most appealing charachter of this series. It was seductive to learn what are Paul's weak spots, he is sooo fascinating. As an additional treat, Sandy, the very verbal but always loyal secretary, allowed us to take a peek at her very private life.
O'Shaughenessey is a master at what they do because while bring the reader to their web of legal tactics, murder investigations and interesting storylines turn arounds, they build up the relationships among its players.
Cheers for digging deeper in the personalities of the fabulous charachters in this series.

Nina is in top form........2002-07-06

Perri Oshaughnessy does it again! A taut first rate thriller. A tour de force! The Characters are first rate. Don't miss this one. Well plotted. Undownputable. The best heroine to come along in fiction.

Mystery and More: Another Winner.......2002-05-18

If a rip-roaring, fast-paced mystery can be called thoughtful, then "Move to Strike" is just that. On the one hand, we have the story of Nina Reilly's newest case, which is so riveting that it helps pull Nina from a terrible depression (I cannot reveal more without ruining "Acts of Malice," the book previous to this one).

On the other hand, for the first time in the series, the reader gets to see what makes Paul von Wagoner tick. Paul, as Nina Reilly regulars well know, is her on-again, off-again friend/lover/confidante and just about everything else. An ace private investigator, he helps Nina solve most of her seemingly unsolvable cases. And, whether he cares to admit it or not, he is deeply in love with Nina. At the end of "Acts of Malice," Paul took a step that changed his life irrevocably. In "Move to Strike," he is dealing with the aftermath of that act...and the knowledge that Nina will never love him back. His very real and complicated anguish is laid bare for the reader as we follow his thoughts, join in his nightmares, and sympathize for this very strong man who is at his weakest moment.

Meanwhile, Nina is struggling to defend a 16-year-old girl, Nikki, who stands accused of brutally murdering her wealthy uncle Bill Sykes, a prominent plastic surgeon in the Tahoe area. WE know that Nikki didn't do it, because WE were there when it happened. But nobody else does...including Nina herself, who is working half on conviction, half on pure hunch. The slimy district attorney, an old foe, is hell-bent on trying Nikki as an adult. And his vicious assistant Barbara, who has old issues with Nina, is helping him gain his way.

If Nikki didn't kill Uncle Bill, who did? Nina's desperate foray into the case involves Nikki's ultra-ditzy former-showgirl mother, Daria, Daria's sister Beth, who is Bill's widow, an older widow fond of concocting potent "herbal" elixirs, and a band of prospectors right out of the Wild West. Add in a questionable private plane crash and a couple of seemingly unrelated murders, and you have a story that just won't let you breathe until you finish.

I guessed the murderer toward the end--but once again the O'Shaugnessy sisters pulled one of their effortless plot twists. I may have been right about the murderer--but nothing could have prepared me for the truth of the crime.

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Breach of Promise:
At glitzy Lake Tahoe, couples break up every day, but none quite so glamorous or successful as Lindy and Mike Markov. The scenario starts off in the standard way: Mike's met a younger woman and wants out. The problem? Mike and Lindy built a $200-million business together and Mike claims he doesn't owe Lindy a dime since they never married.

Acts of Malice:
Set amid the darker side of Lake Tahoe's glamorous ski resorts, Acts of Malice has Nina taking on the case of Jim Strong, a member of South Lake Tahoe's most prominent families and the owners of the posh Paradise Ski Resort. With his brother Alex recently killed in a headline-making accident that occurred while they were skiing together, Jim fears he may be indicted in the death. When the coroner announces that Alex died from injuries unrelated to the accident, Jim is charged with murder.

Move to Strike:
Nina's recovering from a great loss, haunted by a killer who may still be tracking her, and working on a tough new case. Her client is a sixteen-year-old girl charged with first-degree murder. Did Nikki Zack steal something from her uncle, a prominent plastic surgeon, and then kill him with an ancient samurai sword? To help find out, Nina calls in private investigator Paul Van Wagoner, her ex-lover and constant ally.

3 Titles By Perri O'shaugnessy - Case of Lies - Move to Strike - Acts of Malice

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3 Titles By Perri O'shaugnessy - Case of Lies - Move to Strike - Acts of Malice
Perri O'Shaugnessy
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Move To Strike
O Shaughnessy
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Move to Strike
O'Shaughnessy
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Perri O'Shaughnessy Collection: Invasion of Privacy, Move to Strike, Unfit to Practice (Nina Reilly)

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Perri O'Shaughnessy Collection: Invasion of Privacy, Move to Strike, Unfit to Practice (Nina Reilly)
Perri O'Shaughnessy , and Laural Merlington
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Strike the Tent & Move On!
William A. Van Dyke, Jr.
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Release Date: 2005-09-26

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William A. Van Dyke, Jr., born to a pioneer family in rural Texas, became distinguished engineer and scientist, working on such projects as atomic super collider, the cruise missle guidance system, and the most advanced naval radar and guidance systems.

ANF slams moves to ban nurses' right to strike.(NAT): An article from: Australian Nursing Journal

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ANF slams moves to ban nurses' right to strike.(NAT): An article from: Australian Nursing Journal

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This digital document is an article from Australian Nursing Journal, published by Australian Nursing Federation on November 1, 2003. The length of the article is 328 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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Council removes parkway support.(Government)(The mayor and 4 councilors move to strike the west Eugene project from a priority list) : An article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)

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Council removes parkway support.(Government)(The mayor and 4 councilors move to strike the west Eugene project from a priority list) : An article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)

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This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by Thomson Gale on October 27, 2005. The length of the article is 1192 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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Title: Council removes parkway support.(Government)(The mayor and 4 councilors move to strike the west Eugene project from a priority list)
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Date: October 27, 2005
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6 Titles By in Nina Reilly Series - Motion to Suppress - Invasion of Privacy - Breach of Promise - Move to Strike - Unfit to Practice - Case of Lies

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6 Titles By in Nina Reilly Series - Motion to Suppress - Invasion of Privacy - Breach of Promise - Move to Strike - Unfit to Practice - Case of Lies
Perri O'Shaughnessy
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The Colour of Magic is Terry Pratchett's maiden voyage through the bizarre land of Discworld. His entertaining and witty series has grown to more than 20 books, and this is where it all starts--with the tourist Twoflower and his hapless wizard guide, Rincewind ("All wizards get like that ... it's the quicksilver fumes. Rots their brains. Mushrooms, too."). Pratchett spoofs fantasy clichés--and everything else he can think of--while marshalling a profusion of characters through a madcap adventure. The Colour of Magic is followed by The Light Fantastic. --Blaise Selby

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Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent, bestselling novels have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody next to the likes of Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.

The Color of MagicM is Terry Pratchett's maiden voyage through the now-legendary land of Discworld. This is where it all begins -- with the tourist Twoflower and his wizard guide, Rincewind.

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Discworld..........2007-10-10

I have read some very elaborate fantasy/sci fi books in my life, but this one escaped me. I fell asleep more than once in the first 2 chapters and finally gave up. Maybe i should give it another chance, but it has now been at my bedside for a month and I havent had the desire to try again.

fun but episodic.......2007-09-09

The first book in the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett is a lot of fun. Rincewind the cynical dropout wizard finds himself traveling across the Discworld acting as a guide/ gaurdian of the naive Twoflower and his vicious, magical trunk.
The story is a lot of fun, reminiscent at times of Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and Grey Mouser stories, as well as Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Gude to the Galaxy, in the general comic tone and episodic nature of the story.

Not Free SF Reader.......2007-09-03

This is one very funny book, at least funny if you are familiar with a few of the conventions of fantasy with writing with wizards, and magic, and all that sort of thing.

The book follows the misadventures of Rincewind the wizard, an inept guy who has the misfortune to be in the situation where, basically, his suitcase is smarter than he is.

Light but deep.......2007-06-29

The Colour of Magic is the first book in one of the most famous fantasy series ever. Discworld is to fantasy what The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy is to science fiction. Both Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams practice the witty variety of British humour that so many have come to adore, though each has his own idiosincrasies, and the similarities actually end right there. Comparing Pratchett to Adams is a mistake many have made, and will probably continue to. But the fact is they're both British and write comedy, that's all they have in common.

The series is comprised of a couple dozen books revolving around Discworld and its inhabitants. I won't go into details about the planet Discworld itself, since others have already gone on about that lengthly. I'll just add that, even though the book is only a hint of what was coming next, and Pratchett himself has admitted he had no idea what would actually come next, it is already a delightful journey into Pratchett's mind.

The characters are memorable, and even though the plot is at times a little confusing, you still get drawn helplessly into the story. The book is composed of four "chapters" that could to some extent stand alone as "long" short stories or short novelettes. So it's more of a collection of stories than a flowing novel in that sense. Still it's very much enjoyable on account of Pratchett's utter genius to create remarkable characters and interesting worlds.

There's Rincewind, the cowardly wizard who only knows one spell; there's Twoflower, the naïve tourist who came from afar to see first-hand the thieves, and warriors and wizards he's read so much about; there's the luggage, a magical piece of wood turned into a suitcase that will defend its owner and master to death; there's an upside mountain where dragons appear out of thin air from one's imagination; there's Death chasing after the cowardly wizard and always missing him by very little; there's the water troll who guards the borders of Discworld and fishes all kinds of drift material, including castaways; the list goes on and on.

There's something for everyone, as long as you're open to a little silliness. Pratchett's humour is very subtle at times, and there's often a deeper meaning behind his seemingly casual observations, if you care to look into it. Not to be missed at all, and there's plenty to choose from, since most of the books in the series can be read without knowledge of the others, and each book has a main character, some are about Rincewind, some about the witches. You'll see if you give it a try.

Don't forget to try other works by Pratchett, like the Nome trilogy, Good Omens (his collaboration with Neil Gaiman), and even his young adult works, like The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents and The Carpet People.

If you haven't read Terry Pratchett, you should.......2007-06-27

I love Terry Pratchett's work. I had read a number of Discworld books and decided to go back to the beginning to find all of the characters. While this one isn't entirely up to his best later in the series it is still funny and the characters are still a hoot. I think if you start here you'll like it even better.

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Color Of Magic - Discworld Novel
Terry Pratchett
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COLOR OF MAGIC : A DISCWORLD NOVEL
TERRY PRATCHETT
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The Color of Magic: A Discworld Novel (Discworld Novels (Paperback))

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The Color of Magic: A Discworld Novel (Discworld Novels (Paperback))
Terry Pratchett
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How to respond lovingly to your baby and help both of you get some sleep

So grateful

A Great Sleeping Tool

On the Fence...

Found this book very usefull

The Baby Sleep Book: The Complete Guide to a Good Night's Rest for the Whole Family (Sears Parenting Library)
William Sears , Martha Sears , Robert Sears , and James Sears
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Americas favorite pediatric experts turn their attention to the hottest topic in parentingsolving babies sleep problemsin a definitive book that offers immediate results. For every parent whos ever been deprived of sleep by a restless infant or toddler, now theres hope. This much-needed addition to the Sears Parenting Library is the comprehensive, reassuring, solution-filled sleep resource that virtually every American family will want to own. Nighttime separation anxiety, new breastfeeding habits, and an increase in adult sleep problems have made babies sleep habits a growing concern in recent years. The Searses offer solutions. Instead of espousing the kind of one-method-fits-all approach advocated in other parenting books, the Searses teach parents how to match the nighttime temperament of their baby to their own lifestyle. The authors draw on important new infant sleep research from the Mother-Baby Sleep Laboratory at the University of Notre Dame, as well as on their own personal experience as parents of children with a wide range of sleep habits. They also offer a detailed critique of the myriad new devices and ballyhooed techniques that promise to deliver safer and better infant sleep. THE BABY SLEEP BOOK provides parents with the practical tools they need to help the entire family sleep better.

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How to respond lovingly to your baby and help both of you get some sleep.......2007-09-27

In a society where new mothers are probably asked more often if their babies are sleeping through the night than anything else, it becomes a mark of pride among some people to boast that they have gotten their 2 week old to sleep, or an issue that creates a lot of stress.

Dr Sears rebuts the arguments in favor of crying it out, presenting compassionate ideas for getting some sleep, and explaining the importance as a human being of responding to the cries of the new little helpless person in your life, instead of conceiving of them as a scheming, manipulative devil in a onesie. He is well-acquainted with the nuances of sleeping (and wide awake) babies and advises accordingly.

If your major concern is sleep, this book (by itself) may help, but probably is more helpful if you are already familiar with Dr Sears.

So grateful.......2007-07-12

I feel fortunate to have found this book. As a mom who is expecting her second child, I had followed my instinct with my first child - who was not the best sleeper. I felt bad hearing and seeing others have such an easy time. At the same time, I second guessed myself thinking maybe I went about things in the wrong way. Reading this gives me more tools, resources and confidence to go with my instincts.

A Great Sleeping Tool.......2007-06-05

Thank you Dr. Sears! My son and I (and husband too) are all sleeping better. I took his advice and started napping with my son (he has plenty of other suggestions, but this was most fitting for us). It took awhile, but he now naps on his own and doesn't wake up at 30 minutes like he used to. I miss my naps a little, so we still co-nap on occassion...but now I can do laundry, dishes, email, etc. while he sleeps if I want to. YAY! My husband read the section on co-sleeping and decided it was something we should do...I didn't need any convincing...we're all sleeping together and waking up well rested!

On the Fence..........2007-05-18

I have very mixed feelings about this book, especially since I have had it for about a year, am 25 weeks pregnant with #2, and have a 19 month old who STILL wakes up multiple times per night.
Since Emma came home from the hospital, she was pretty clear that she was going to be difficult about sleep, so it was easy for me, naive and worried about EVERYTHING, to fall into Dr. Sears AP approach to nighttime parenting. I took on the sole responsiblity of parenting her to sleep b/c I honestly believed I was the only one who could. She was breastfed, and while I think it is impractical to try not to let a breastfeeding baby fall asleep at the breast, I definitely think that we could have modified our methods to allow more Dad interaction. Some of the reviewers have said basically that this is a mom-centered book but that isn't entirely the case. He does have a whole chapter on dads and how they can get involved at night and with sleep. I just didn't want to let her cry at ALL and being with Dad made her cry.
In the early days, when babies wake up all night, co-sleeping did seem to help with sleep deprivation, but I wish that I had been more adamant about her sleeping by herself sooner. I have a book on breastfeeding by Janet Tamaro, and she makes the point in the section about sleep/nighttime that any habit can be broken, but it will take time.
The naptime strategies help; I do have a very good napper. Her nighttime habits just haven't really matured. And I do respect the fact that children sleep differently, but I need help, not someone to tell me that over and over. The Drs. Sears do say that if something isn't working for you it needs to be fixed, but I wish there were more solutions instead of what seem to be general suggestions.
Okay, I now have Dr. Weissbluth's "Healthy Sleep Habits Healthy Child," and Emma now sleeps through the night (11-12 hours) with not a peep out of her. I totally recommend his book. It took three days and she was sleeping like she NEEDS to. Cheers!!

Found this book very usefull.......2007-05-08

I was very against putting my baby asleep using the 'cry it out' method. This book justified my beliefs and gave very good reasons why that method is not effective. It gives good tips on getting baby to sleep on their own without causing them undo distress. I was able to take what I could use from this book and use if effectively on my son.

Baby Sleep Book - Complete Guide To Good Night's Rest For The Whole Family

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Baby Sleep Book - Complete Guide To Good Night's Rest For The Whole Family
William; Sears, Robert; Sears, James; Sears, Martha Sears
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Baby Sleep Book: The Complete Guide To A Good Night's Rest For The Whole Family

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Great Chef, Beautiful Cookbook, Beginners need not apply

Coffee Table Cookbook

Great chef, average cookbook.

Blue... blue.... this book is blue (popular french song)...

ducasse the only wild cook from france

Ducasse Flavors of France
Alain Ducasse , and Linda Dannenberg
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Ducasse is a book you'll want to leave out on a coffee table. It is more than beautiful--left open, it has the power to transform the nature of a room with its exquisite photographs and recipes, which are as good to read as they are to cook from. Taken into the kitchen, the power is inherent in Ducasse to transform any meal well beyond the exemplary. But then there's the danger that a spill or greasy fingers might soil the pages, which would be tragic. And yet, this is not just another pretty book, something to thumb through and shrug off. This is a book to take to heart, starting with the first recipe--Fennel "Marmalade"--and then on to Cocotte of Young Spring Vegetables, Spiny Lobster with a Rhubarb-Ginger Chardonnay Sauce, and Chicken Fricassee with Morels, and so on, and so on, until you end up with Coffee and Chocolate Parfait with Dark Chocolate Sauce. Alain Ducasse is the only chef with six Michelin stars to his credit. In his kitchens and in his book he uses the best possible ingredients, treating each and every one with deserved respect. Recipes have been tried and tested to ensure perfection, and--reassuringly--dishes work well in the home kitchen. Ducasse is a wonderful teacher, and every page is filled with rich descriptions of flavor, color, texture, and aroma. Like so much about Alain Ducasse, it is a picture of food that defies language. You will recognize it, though, turning these gorgeous pages, plotting the next dish you choose to master. The opportunity exists with Ducasse to gain a new kind of fluency. --Schuyler Ingle

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Brash, driven, and dazzlingly inventive, fourteen-star chef Alain Ducasse is a larger-than-life figure. At thirty-three, he was the youngest chef ever to be awarded three Michelin stars; and in 2005 he became the first chef in the world to win three stars for three restaurants, with a staggering total of fourteen stars spread across eight restaurants in three countries. He has mentored a generation of younger chefs who have introduced his cooking around the world and he has, quite simply, changed the face of traditional French cooking.

In this, his first American cookbook, M. Ducasse shares the principles and techniques of his uniquely elemental cuisine. At its core are clarity of taste, precision in execution, and respect for the food itself, which to Ducasse means retaining its essential flavor. That respect for true taste results in a multitude of simple but striking techniques. Ducasse uses as much of each ingredient as he can—the skins, the shells, the baking juices, the pan drippings, the heads, the cooking broth, all the by-products of the process—in order to capture the truest taste. He incorporates different preparations of the same ingredient into a given dish, each revealing an individual aspect of its flavor—sliced raw artichokes, braised whole artichokes, and paper-thin slices of fried artichoke, for example, might be featured together. The brilliance of his food—apparent in recipes made with no more than two ingredients enhanced by a simple aromatic element, with seasoning reduced to a few grains of salt—explains why he is "the country's star chef" ( Wine Spectator) and "the Escoffier of our time" ( Le Point).

Ducasse Flavors of France documents, in more than one hundred lavishly photographed recipes, the influences—Mediterranean, Provençal, and classical French—that permeate this extaordinary cuisine. Many of the recipes are simple, others complex, but all can be perfectly accomplished with a little time and patience.With its "alluringly simple dishes, like buttery fork-mashed potatoes, peppered slices of sauteed pumpkin, swordfish with citrus, exquisite chocolate tartlets, and a homey pear and honey cake made with big chunks of pear" (The New York Times), this is the most accessible Ducasse cookbook published. Yet there are still recipes to challenge ambitious cooks and great tips that will make all cooks better in the kitchen.

Customer Reviews:

Great Chef, Beautiful Cookbook, Beginners need not apply.......2004-01-12

I purchased this book on sale for $24.95, however I would have paid the list price of $60 because I feel it is worth it.

The photography is absolutely stunning. If you are familiar with Roger Verge's "Entertaining in the New French Style", the photographer is the same.

Recipes I have tried with success:
Dark Chocolate Tart with Rich Pastry Dough Crust
Pear Tart: Raw and Caramelized
Jasmine Pots de Creme

Criticisms
-Many of the recipes require ingredients unavailable in this country.
-Many times, the pictures do not quite match up with the recipes, which is very frustrating when looking for visual clues.

Overall, this book is for serious chefs or those who want to look like serious chefs by putting this book on their coffee table. Many of the recipes are simple: the filling for the chocolate tart only contains 4 ingredients, but this makes them all the more challenging: there is nothing easy about the recipes.

Coffee Table Cookbook.......2001-02-12

Big, bold and beautiful describe this volume.

From one of the greatest French chefs, too much of this fare is unavailable to the home gourmet. However, savory and well done is this book with its exceptional photos and stylish intros to setup this exquisite cuisine.

Some of the soups and simple seafood dishes are about all anyone except the pros could attempt due to lack of ingredients and guts to go after some of these rather complicated recipes.

Great chef, average cookbook........2000-12-06

There is no denying Alain Ducasse is the chef of the moment. However, this book was somewhat of a disappointment. The recipes are interesting, the photography decent. But the problem lies in the ingredients. Too many recipes call for ingredients that are flat out impossible to find - and he offers no alternatives. It is one thing to ask for truffles, caviar, or duck confit. It is another to require specific mediterranean fish that are not found in this country, or obscure wild game and offal that cannot be had. Substituting chicken, or even quail or pheasant just doesn't cut it.

Blue... blue.... this book is blue (popular french song)..........2000-05-20

Blue are the pages of this book ... blue like the sea in Monaco where the three Michelin stars shine on Louis XV first Alain Ducasse restaurant. Three other stars were offered by Michelin to the same Alain Ducasse for his second restaurant in Paris in 1998. He became the only chef in the world to be granted with 6 stars by famous Michelin France Red Guide Book. Everything is beautiful in this book. Linda Danneberg explains how she installed a photographic studio in the barn close to the third restaurant "La Bastide de Moustiers". There, on the straw from the Alpes de Haute-Provence, she helped Pierre Hussenot, photographer, to install freshly made preparations under the sun of Midi (and projectors). I did not try the recipes. This is why I will not comment them. They are detailed in plain english. Comments on Alain Ducasse 9-days-a-week lifestyle bring value to this book. It is not only a collection of recipes. It is a comprehensive deep analyis of success-factors from the king of chefs. This book is a monument as his model.

ducasse the only wild cook from france.......1999-03-30

the only person in france to decide to cook what he want without the roules of french cooking, and a great lover of mediterranean food he has the determination to propose the fusion of french cuisine and mediterranean flavors in montecarlo firte and then in paris, aGENIUS

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Ducasse Flavors of France
Alain Ducasse
Manufacturer: Artisan Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000N673AQ

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