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Murder, Mystery and Mayhem.......2005-10-28
This is the fourth China Bayles mystery I've read, since I'm reading them in the order published. These books keep getting better and better. While her first three books were great, this one, "Rosemary Remembered," is her best yet. I love her characters. China Bayles keeps growing on me and now I feel like I know her personally. I just love her best friend Ruby. What a great character! And I enjoy watching China's relationship with McQuaid and his son evolve. Susan Wittig Albert has done a marvelous job of creating an entire town and true-to-life characters to populate it. I highly recommend this book to all mystery lovers.
Too much of the occult.......2004-08-08
Rosemary Robbins is China Bayles' hard-working accountant. When China runs an errand to Rosemary's house, she finds her dead from several bullet wounds. There are no lack of suspects, as Rosemary has an angry ex-husband and two women who are jealous of her new relationship with a man named Jeff. Then, there's a man that China's live-in boyfriend McQuaid helped put away, who is now out of jail. China and her friends do some investigating, despite the fact that McQuaid does not want her to become involved. Before it's over, her friend Ruby convinces her to consult with Ondine, who uses Ouiji boards and communicates with the dead. This book seemed to delve into the occult more than was necessary, but it did develop the relationship between China and McQuaid's son, Brian.
Definitely a great read!.......2003-08-04
China finds her (and nearly everybody else's) accountant shot in McQuaid's blue truck, which they had borrowed to Rosemary. This happens shortly after a convicted killer, who McQuaid helped to put behind bars and who threatened to get even, was relased. Rosemary happens to resemble China at first glance and she was driving McQuaid's truck. Who shot Rosemary who was recently divorced from an abusive husband (who happens to manage a gunshop) and was involved with one of the local hotel co-owners? Did anybody really know Rosemary? Did she have a secret agenda? Why has the man she was involved with gone on a fishing trip shortly before Rosemary was killed? The hotel co-owner's brother-in-law (who owns the other half of the hotel) sends McQuaid after him to bring him back, but where did Jeff really go?
China, who in the meantime has moved in with McQuaid, Brian and all his animals, is not only busy preparing a conventionof herbalists in Pecan Springs but also busy to find out about the motif for Rosemary's murder as well as her killer.
Even though Pecan Springs is fictional, everyone who knows the Texas Hill County will immediately feel familiar with places and people. Susan Wittig Albert gets better and better! I think it is a good idea to make references to previous novels, because readers not familiar with them will know what has happened before and can start with any book of this series. Read this book and you will get hooked
An improvement over the first three........2002-03-18
As with the first three books in this series, I still ask myself how come somebody who owns a store seems to have so much time to run around doing other things. But, getting beyond that, this has definitely been my favorite to date. In this one, after finding the body of Rosemary Robbins (who ran the store a few doors down from China), China seems to feel she owes it to Rosemary to find out who killed her. So once again, instead of letting the police do their job, she throws herself into the thick of things. So, you've got one dead body, one person missing, McQuaid out of the country trying to track down said missing person, an ex-con McQuaid helped put away recently released and threatening to come after McQuaid's son Brian (who has been left in China's care while McQuaid is out of the country), and McQuaid's ex-wife suing for custody of Brian. All in all, a big improvement over her previous books, and a lot of stuff happening. Of course, let's not forget the never-ending tidbits of knowledge regarding various herbs, which I think adds a pleasant side to each of these stories.
More Ruby please.......2002-02-10
I figured out who the killer was early on but it didnt spoil the story. I really like China Bayles. She is cool. However if I could talk to Ms Albert I would ask her to please include more of the Ruby character and ease back on the Sheila!! I think Ruby rocks!! But I liked this book and I like this series. The herb info is cool too. I am reading these in order so I have a few more to go. I have enjoyed them all.
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A wonderful book.......1999-06-15
Five stars aren't enough for this wonderful book. Perfectly written, deeply moving, beautiful.
A wonderful autobiography, but not long enough.......1999-03-25
This is a fascinating book on several levels. First it is the story of a young girl, an only child born in 1920, growing up with middle-class parents, but in a fashion which combined the usual practices and mores of the time with the unusual. As she was crippled (her word) at the age of three, her mother insisted on bringing her up herself rather than delivering her to a nanny, and, due in part to her disabilities, and the long periods of treatment made necessary, she had little formal education. However, she discovered books at an early age, initially through being read to, and was a consummate observer of both people and landscape, particularly on a small scale - the play of light on a dagger blade, the petals of a flower. Second, it is story of the development of a writer, up to the time her first book was accepted for publication (what a pity she stopped there - I wanted her to go on!) Third, for me as the child of Service parents (father in the RAF) it is the best representation I have ever seen of the life of the Service child. Rosemary's father was a naval officer, and she, like me, absorbed unconsciously the traditional values and mores of the British Armed Services while moving every two or three years according to her father's postings. These values, which have a timelessness about them, in particular the reciprocal loyalties of officer to man and man to officer, the duty of an officer towards his men, come through very clearly in all her fiction. As with all her books, the descriptions are superb (she trained as a miniature painter. The fourth element, I suppose, relates to the disability and her acceptance of it, in an atmosphere very different from that of today. She says that her mother in particular sought as far as possible to bring her up as a normal child, and so she never really thought of herself as crippled, even though in practical terms she was quite badly disabled. I was lucky enough to correspond with her, and to meet her on one occasion before she died, and I was quite surprised to see how disabled she actually was - she was a person who was incredibly alive.
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A Canadian classic. Great Bear, A Journey Remembered, is a spellbinding true story of adventure and coming of age in the mineral rush at Great Bear Lake in the 1930s. Ted Watt was down but not out when he accepted an offer of a prospecting job at Great Bear Lake. This is the story of his year on the barren rock at Great Bear and of the colourful people who were attracted to Canada's most controversial mineral discovery.
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Jim Thorpe, the Legend Remembered
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Jim Thorpe Grew up loving the outdoors. He could run, jump, and throw extremely well and spent many childhood days enjoying these natural abilities. He went to the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania, where he was a star on both the football and track and field teams. While at Carlisle, Jim competed in the 1912 Olympic Games in Sweden and won two gold medals. He was proclaimed "the greatest athlete in the world"; then he followed that incredible success with professional careers in both baseball and football. His accomplishments in football led to a place in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Rosemary K. Updyke has researched Jim Thorpe's life thoroughly, drawing on information from historical societies, university archives, and personal interviews. She tells the story of this outstanding man and athlete from interesting beginning to inspiring end.
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- far-fetched and poorly written
- Florio is the Clancy of football.
- An Excellent Book for any Reader
- Complex enough for a varied audience
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Quarterback of the Future
Mike Florio
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Two modern-day college football players compete at the one position they both were born to play. After the dust settles, a friendship emerges, and it surprisingly grows - until one man learns that his teammate secretly has betrayed the entire program.
A flash of light interrupts the confrontation, and the men soon realize that they've been transported to 1960. As they search for a way home, they plan for a stay that could be permanent - by trying to win a spot with Pittsburgh's pro team.
They quickly learn how far the game (and society) truly has come in only four decades. And they use their knowledge of the future and their superior skills to emerge as unlikely stars on a franchise that at the time knew very little about winning.
But when they least expect it, the flash of light returns. This time, however, only one is taken.
And you'll never believe where he ends up...
Customer Reviews:
far-fetched and poorly written.......2006-03-29
To NFL fans who regularly surf the net for great football news, the name Mike Florio is synonomous with "Fred Edelstein" and "Len Pasquarelli". Florio is the James Callendar of the NFL - a rumormonger without scruples. No "scoop" is unfit for Florio to print - even if it's completely untrue.
Florio's book is much the same, unfortunately. Quarterback of the Future is very much a hodgepodge of lame and tired cliches about race mixed in with a pinch of science fiction. It doesn't work.
It's very difficult to pull of a quality sports novel. Many great writers have tried and failed. Florio is not a great writer, and he too fails. Miserably.
Florio is the Clancy of football........2002-02-12
As far-fetched as this sounds, this book is Monday Night Football meets Somewhere in Time, and IT WORKS. Florio obviously is a huge football fan, and it shows. The detail in his descriptions of everything from training to practices to the game action is reminiscent of Clancy's descriptions of military hardware and tactics. But Florio may be a better storyteller than Clancy. This book never gets bogged down in the details that Florio provides in abundance. Florio makes you care about the characters and propels you to the end of the book. If you like football AND you like fiction that makes you think, you owe it to yourself to check out this book.
An Excellent Book for any Reader.......2001-08-22
Mike Florio's "Quarterback of the Future" was one of the most thrilling books I have read, not to mention the hardest to put down. Florio's knowledge of the NFL, both past and present (and his prophesies for the future) show in this book and make the storyline interesting. A twist dealing with a time warp only adds to the excitement, with an exciting climax and ending topping of the book. I would suggest this book to ANYONE, whether a fan or not of football (though diehard NFL fans MUST read this book!!!).
Complex enough for a varied audience.......2001-04-28
Quarterback of the Future is a novel with an interesting story line for any audience, regardless of your enthusiasm for football or sports. In fact, there is enough complexity in the story line to capture any interest-- a nice balance between factual and fantasy.
The complexity comes in story and character development that draws the reader into the novel without a lot of complication within the first chapter. Mike Florio does a great job at setting the scene of present day college era athletic and social activities, and a contrasting setting of a fictional 1960 professional footbal organization. The depth of the plot is manifested by multiple character dilemas that are varied and easy to follow, but increasingly more interesting as the story reaches its end.
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This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by Thomson Gale on September 18, 2007. The length of the article is 815 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: Ducks loading up for future.(Sports)(Two transfer quarterbacks from Brigham Young walk on to bolster Oregon's practice squads)
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This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by The Register Guard on December 16, 2004. The length of the article is 817 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: Options wide open as DuRocher ponders future.(Sports)(The former Oregon quarterback is on track to finish junior college after winter quarter)
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Prescription for Natural Cures: A Self-Care Guide for Treating Health Problems with Natural Remedies Including Diet and Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Bodywork, and More
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The all-in-one natural health resource your family can trust
Dr. James Balch coauthored Prescription for Nutritional Healing, which became the first major popular guide to the healing power of foods and nutritional supplements, selling more than 8 million copies in all its editions. Now, Dr. Balch and Dr. Mark Stengler present a new natural health resource that you can't afford to be without—a comprehensive reference of natural remedies for common ailments, including:
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Prescription for Natural Cures provides a complete natural Rx for each condition, giving you a proven, natural, customized prescription that may include supplements, herbal medicine, homeopathy, aromatherapy, Chinese medicine, hydrotherapy, bodywork, natural hormones, and other natural cures in addition to nutritional advice. Organized by problem from A to Z, this invaluable guide features:
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One for the Library.......2007-09-21
I have always used Prescription for Nutritional Healing as a reference book and this one is the perfect companion. The only problem I have with it is the assumption that everything has a remedy. I prefer the holistic view that encompasses the entire person and use the remedies as "tune-ups," rather than as "the answer." Great reference book, but again, I prefer "Forget the Cures, Find the Cause," both books to really get started at being well and then referencing this book for finer details.
Fabulous Guide to Healthy.......2007-01-19
I love this book! I refer to it all the time. Given that we are in the HMO and PPO age it helps to go to your doctor's office with a little knowledge of what could possible be wrong and different treatment options. I would much rather take the more natural approach to self care than relying on allopathic medication for everything.
A great resource book.......2007-01-19
This is a great resource on diet and nutrition and gives practical solutions to many health problems. This book is deals with prevention as well as cure and augments standard medical practice.
the Bible of natural remedies.......2007-01-11
I bought each of my grown children a copy of this book for Christmas; they love it. It has already become an invaluable self-help tool for them. And for me too since they have no health insurance. Easy to understand, remedies that are easily accessible, and very informative.
now i need to buy myself a copy...
Prescription for Natural Cures.......2007-01-11
This purchase was money well spent. Refer to it numerous times. Every home should have one as a reference tool.
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Basic & Essential.......2007-08-06
This book is great that in that it has a large color photo for nearly every recipe. The recipes are varying in scope to some extent but annoying in that the author chose to make different pages for variations to the same recipes such as croquettes (ham/seafood/vegetable) so this makes me feel that he was trying to "up" the recipe count with minimal effort.
All in all, recommended for a "basic" tapas cookbook.
Tapas: The Essential Kitchen.......2006-08-31
Clearly written instructions. Good photographs. The 10 recipes I have prepared were all good.
For the most part ingredients were readily available.
Okay but not great........2006-01-25
I felt most of the dishes take too long to prepare and make. I think these recipies are for a person with better than average cooking skills and not cooking for a family of 4 after a hard days work. Most of the mushroom dishes are delicious: just the right amount of flavor if you follow the instructions.
A Separate Style of Cusine.......2001-07-30
"Tapas" contains step-by-step recipes of authentic Spanish flavors from the interior of Spain and it's surrounding islands as well as some of the author's own creations. Richard Tapper takes you on a Spanish culinary tour that includes such mouth-watering and flavorful foods like Stuffed Artichokes, Chorizo and Olive Empanadas, Spicy Hard-Boiled Eggs, Shrimp Omelette, Cheese Marinated in Tarragon and Garlic, Mallorcan Pizza, Moorish-Style Kabobs, and Sangria (well, yeah!) Don't put a lid on your next tapas party. The author suggests serving tapas in Spanish crockery and to have Spanish classical guitar music playing in the background to help create an authentic Spanish bar atmosphere. Buen provecho!
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