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Connor Hawthorne and Laura Nez travel to Boston to attend the funeral of Catherine Pettigrew, the mother of Connor's college friend and former lover, Grace. Before the funeral, Grace reveals to Connor that she is troubled over the manner of her mother's death, and Grace's concern is made graver by the sudden appearance of a sibling she never knew she had. Even worse, the mysterious -sibling appears to have inherited the lion's share of Catherine's sizable estate. Connor's attention, however, is diverted by the presence of her own mother, Amanda, with whom Connor has not spoken in years.
Matters take a horrifying turn when the limousine carrying Amanda and Grace's aunt, Florence Earnhardt, is forced off the Fore River Bridge and plunges into the water, killing all the occupants. Joining forces to investigate the deaths of Catherine, Florence, and Amanda is the stalwart cast from the previous Connor Hawthorne mysteries, including Connor's father, Benjamin; FBI agent Ayalla Franklin; and Washington, D.C., police captain Malcolm Jefferson. Their investigation uncovers a Pettigrew family conspiracy dating from 17th-century America through Hitler's Third Reich into present day. What is the nature of the special gift of the Pettigrew family, and will Grace use it for good or for evil?
Lauren Maddison is the author of three previous Connor Hawthorne mysteries: Deceptions, Witchfire, and Death by Prophecy, all three of which were Lambda Literary Award finalists. She has lived in so many places even she has lost track of them, but she now makes her home in Southern California.
Customer Reviews:
I couldn't finish it.......2005-02-05
The stiff-as-a-board expository dialogue alone ruins this book. Simply dreadful. Save your money.
Well worth reading!.......2004-03-07
Nice, suspenseful plot, kept me turning the pages. Lots of twists and turns, plenty of surprises. I like the way Maddison slips easily between planes of reality, without making her readers confused. Good job! My only complaint about the book is that it could have used a good proofreader. Lots and lots of typos, which I find quite distracting when I'm reading.
Best one yet!.......2003-12-04
Lauren Maddison just keeps getting better and better! The latest installment in her "Connor Hawthorne" series is the best one yet! Mystery, intrigue, and the supernatural make for a mix of non-stop action from beginning to end. If you haven't had the pleasure of reading this author and series, start today! Maddison is definitely a rising star in the publishing world and Connor Hawthorne the next Scarpetta!
Customer Reviews:
More than believable.......2006-02-19
Set in a Norsh style ice age all three books just keep on giving. action ,adventure ,romance. plot twists. the setings and story lines are more believable than most ancient religons or mythology's. The characters will soon feel like you're best friends. seamless transitions between books . the longest I have ever gone without sleep was with my nose buried in this series.I have purchased all 3 twice in paperback (both covers).and hardback. have been told there is a 4th (prequel)(Castle of the wind?)there is the potential for many more if the legeds hinted at were explored .cant say enough about theese. Rohan has a masterwork here.
Where not in Tolkienville anymore..........2004-09-28
I have read this first book of his trillogy and it is a little rough but captivating enough. Lots of descritptions and little dialog. The concept is unique which makes it interesting to read. It may be offensive to Tolkien fans for looking like a knock off but if you can get by this it is quite a rewarding read compared to most fantasy books these days.
Great Read!!.......2003-12-13
Rating System:
1 star = abysmal; some books deserve to be forgotten
2 star = poor; a total waste of time
3 star = good; worth the effort
4 star = very good; what writing should be
5 star = fantastic; must own it and share it with others
STORY: When a coastal village is attacked by the seafaring, cannibalistic Ekwesh, a young thrall, Alv, is spared by their leader, Mylio the Mastersmith. In the shadow of the Great Ice, the sinister Mylio makes the boy his apprentice. Thus starts the journey for Alv (later named Elof) who discovers the ability within himself to smith items of power beyond what he or others imagine. His journeys take him to the deepest mountains of the duerger and to the lands of the children of the forest then to the battlements of the Southerners where he alone may have the ability to turn the tides of the coming Ice.
MY FEEDBACK:
Several series I read in High School I?ve hated later as an adult (i.e. Dragonlance). But this series still kept me turning page after page in anticipation of what will happen next. I have no complaints about the setting, characters, plot, sense of originality or overall writing.
The only complaint I have is that it seemed at a couple of points that a female duerger (dwarf in my mind and based on author?s descriptions) spoke in the exact same matter as a Southern Lord. This got a bit irritating for me, but the rest of the story allowed me to overlook this.
This is one of those well crafted stories that build up to a single climatic event vs. the current trend in media where every 15 minutes a climatic event occurs. But nowhere along the lines of building up to the event did I find the story slow, clich?, or boring. This is definitely up there in my top 5 series of all time. Get your hands on a copy ASAP. You won?t be disappointed.
Generic ho-hum fantasy.......2003-10-28
Low-grade Tolkien imitation. Feeble attempt at pretending to be some sort of pre-history epic. Laughable try at coming up with fantasy languages and names. Perhaps about the same level as David Eddings, a tad better than the D&D novel factories.
Great Book Bad Cover Art.......2002-05-15
This is a great book and a great series. I recently found the series in a box in my closet and I'm going to read them again. Why didn't these books sell better? Well...the cover art isn't attractive...that has always been my guess.
Average customer rating:
- One of the better fantasy trilogies I've ever read
- an excellent triology
- The glitter of ordinary fantasy transmuted by a master
- Simply the best FF you'll ever read
- easily up there with eddings, jordan, feist and martin
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The Anvil of Ice: The Winter of the World
Michael Scott Rohan
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Customer Reviews:
One of the better fantasy trilogies I've ever read.......2002-01-15
This is the first book of Rohan's trilogy. Like so many others, I can't believe this is out of print. It's easily in the top third of the trilogies/series I've read. As some others have said, this series has 'everything' you look for in good fantasy.
an excellent triology.......2000-04-25
I read a lot of fantasy and SF. This is one series that really stands out. It's a real mix of european and north american myth, set in an ice age. The end of an age of magic,gods and myth, but with a solid 'reality' base.
I've read this series more than once, and I still think it's great. Pick it up if you can and read it. It's worth it.
The glitter of ordinary fantasy transmuted by a master.......2000-03-03
Scott Rohan takes all the glitter of the ordinary fantasy novel and transmutes by solid smithcraft. This story starts with a thunderclap, storms off in fury and ends breathlessly, with the sequel looming like clouds in the distance. He is a very good writer with a style all his own, rich but not obscure, erudite but not pedantic. His hero becomes more appealing instead of more distant as his powers grow. The gods are truly fearful and unpredictable, playing and joking with destinies yet bound by destiny themselves. Of the vast and awesome landscapes, of the histories and myths, he shows us incredibly much in so few pages, and leaves us yearning for more. So: the Ice is advancing to blot all life off the face of the World. Neighbouring peoples, who could be brothers, wage war and do not see the freezing danger. Into these besieged lands is launched a young man to whom there is more than meets the eye. He has it in him to be a great hero, but he has also a fierce temper, plus impatience, foolishness, generosity and other faults in plenty to get him into trouble and to make him lovable. Don't wait: read it.
Simply the best FF you'll ever read.......1998-11-30
This trilogy is one of those rare things; a set of books you can laugh and cry at, and when you get to the end you just wan't more and more. I read the first book when it came out in the UK, and believe me when I say that waiting for each next book in the series was painfull, but when it came out.....you couldn't help but dance round the bookshop in joy.
I've never got so involved with a story that inspired me so much before. It's a cross between the dark side of Gormenghast and the scope of Lord of the Rings.
Only one other author has come close, Roger Taylor; the rest are way, way behind.
easily up there with eddings, jordan, feist and martin.......1998-10-07
back in the early 90's i unknowingly picked up this series in a used bookstore in san antonio texas. i have turned all of my friends who appreciate fantasy on to the series and will continue to do so. unfortunately, my copies are starting to look like one of jordan's early paperbacks, so i continue to look for them in used stores. tough to find, but if you do, snap it up and enjoy. i only wish his newer series was as good.
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- Help during a dark time
- No Time to Say Goodbye - Carla Fine
- Highly Recommend
- Surviving the Suicide of a Friend
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No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving The Suicide Of A Loved One
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No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving The Suicide Of A Loved One
Customer Reviews:
Help during a dark time.......2007-09-22
12 years ago when a friend committed suicide, it was the only book I could find on the subject. It definitely helped me through, especially talking about the stigma attached to suicide and how friends and family don't know how to act.
My only complaint was some of the stories she tells about suicide are a bit too graphic for my taste, but I would recommend the book. The listings of help and support in the back are helpful as well.
No Time to Say Goodbye - Carla Fine.......2007-09-04
An inside perspective of what surviving the suicide of a loved one feels like. It's nice to know you're NOT alone as there's such a lot of shame and stigma surrounding suicide; society just doesn't talk about it and when it happens to you, you feel incredibly alone and rather like a side show amusement park act with passers by glaring. If only more people 'came out' and offered support... this book offers that support and understanding. Written matter-of-factly it's never condescending or belittling.
Beautifully written and easily read this book is a MUST for anyone left behind or studying psychology and should be a compulsory read on every High School book list - it may even deter a few sucides!
Many thanks to Carla Fine for helping me through my darkest hour.
Joanne Saunders
Melbourne, Australia.
Highly Recommend.......2007-08-29
I found this book to be extremely helpful and comforting after the death of my husband 5 months ago by suicide. I would recommend this book to anyone else suffering through this type of pain.
Surviving the Suicide of a Friend.......2007-05-15
I bought this book for a very dear friend whose bi-polar disordered husband recently committed suicide, as I heard it was one of the best. I decided to read it myself first so I could try and better understand the situation so I could be the very best friend I could to my life-long childhood girlfriend. One thing I know will standout when she reads it is that she is not alone and there are far more in her exact situation than she has any idea of. There is a lot of positive information as well as hope for a future without the one that was lost. I know it helped me get through the immediate aftermath.
Helpful, human, but somewhat trivial.......2007-05-10
Although I appreciate the author's journey in the suicide of her husband, and sharing it with the reader, I found the writing to be repetitive and trivial. I don't know why it was important to state for each "story" she researched/ journalized to attach the person's occupation, for example -- a writing style which I find irrelevant -- one or two examples that may prove that suicide is possible from all walks of life may have sufficed.... Also the book is limited pretty much to a single citation which is persistently "marketed" throughout the book. The work does encourage the survivors of suicide to seek out support groups/ therapy which is paramount to this tragedy in anyone's life; and the encouraging sense of hope she eventually finds in her own journey may help most readers.
Book Description
The silence of pain created havoc in my mind and sickness in my body Suicide is a non-fiction, based upon the experiences of a love in the life of a woman who seemed to have searched for love in the wrong place and at the wrong time. He was tall, handsome, intelligent and a definite ladies man. He was everything that she dreamed of. He had taken her heart with one look and she was ready to surrender all. This is a real and moving story of love and lost to a terrible fate, of suicide. Suicide is genuine and authentic, to those person's that suddenly find themselves in the middle of its horror; as if being caught up, in a tornado's wind storm, that had come, too soon. Suddenly, one finds him or herself standing, such as the old oak tree, statuesquely tall, durably solid and gallantly strong; after the tornado has past, never realizing that much damage has occurred, on the inside.
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Fifty years before the phrase "simple living" became fashionable, Helen and Scott Nearing were living their celebrated "Good Life" on homesteads first in Vermont, then in Maine. All the way to their ninth decades, the Nearings grew their own food, built their own buildings, and fought an eloquent combat against the silliness of America's infatuation with consumer goods and refined foods. They also wrote or co-wrote more than thirty books, many of which are now being brought back into print by the Good Life Center and Chelsea Green. Simple Food for the Good Life is a jovial collection of "quips, quotes, and one-of-a-kind recipes meant to amuse and intrigue all of those who find themselves in the kitchen, willingly or otherwise." Recipes such as Horse Chow, Scott's Emulsion, Crusty Carrot Croakers, Raw Beet Borscht, Creamy Blueberry Soup, and Super Salad for a Crowd should improve the mood as well as whet the appetite of any guest. Here is an antidote for the whole foods enthusiast who is "fed up" with the anxieties and drudgeries of preparing fancy meals with stylish, expensive, hard-to-find ingredients. This celebration of salads, leftovers, raw foods, and homegrown fruits and vegetables takes the straightest imaginable route from their stem or vine to your table. "The funniest, crankiest, most ambivalent cookbook you'll ever read," said Food & Wine magazine. "This is more than a mere cookbook," said Health Science magazine: "It belongs to the category of classics, destined to be remembered through the ages." Among Helen Nearing's numerous books is Chelsea Green's Loving and Leaving the Good Life, a memoir of her fifty-year marriage to Scott Nearing and the story of Scott's deliberate death at the age of one hundred. Helen and Scott Nearing's final homestead in Harborside, Maine, has been established in perpetuity as an educational progam under the name of The Good Life Center.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent book!.......2007-06-27
This is an excellent book! It is much more than a recipe book, and is a recipe for long life and health as well. It describes the negative health results of constantly "feasting" in this country, and shows how a much simpler approach to eating can bring health and longevity. The author and spouse lived an active life to their late 90's and rarely if ever were sick. This book explains why.
Not just a cookbook .......2005-11-21
Nearing explains straight off that there are too many cookbooks out there ranging from the simplest to the most outlandish fares. Hers are quite simple rarely using more then 3 ingredients and saving a lot of time in the kitchen in order to do more important things such as savoring life. These recipes are highly nutritious and come from such simple foods as potatos, rose hips, and turnips which are basic fare that is abundant through the seasons and cheap on the budget. Dont be mistaken these foods are hardy and tasty. I have though always preferred a simple vegetarian stew or soup, to fine dining. Helen Nearing and her husband Scott were remarkable people because they were advocates of homesteading, simple living and just making do with what you got. They both chose their way of living because they wanted to reconnect with the earth, something that most all people take for granted. Their other books are remarkable as well because their choosing the good life afforded them the pleasures of living to older ages while still keeping their wit and energy til the end.
This book reflects the good life and the teachings of these wondeful earth lovers.
The Uncook Book.......2005-02-22
This book is a collection of essays and recipes explaining and demonstrating Helen Nearing's philosophy about food. Nearing is the first to point out that she does not enjoy cooking in the least. For this reason, she spent as little time as possible in food preparation. Nevertheless, as thousands of visitors would testify, the food from her kitchen was wholesome, tasty, and most of all, nourishing. Her cardinal rule was that food should take no longer to prepare than to consume. Of course, some dishes required simmering for several hours on the woodstove, but the active involvement of the cook was still limited to just a few minutes.
The first part of the book is devoted mainly to Nearing's philosophy of food. She explains the benefits of minimal processing and raw foods, for the cook as well as for health. She devotes an entire chapter to espousing vegetarianism. The second part of the book contains recipes or general directions for the kinds of foods she and Scott ate on their homesteads. Separate chapters cover breakfast, soups, salads, vegetables, casseroles, baking, desserts, and beverages. She also discusses seasonings, food preservation, and food storage. One delightful aspect of the book is her collection of quotes from old books that she sprinkles throughout the text.
Nearing is very clear about her approach to cooking-she doesn't consider the process itself a worthwhile activity. She tells us "work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else. Well, I'd rather be reading (or writing) a good book, playing good music, building a wall, gardening, swimming, skating, walking-anything that is more active, more intellectual, or more inspiring." She states that if a person actually enjoys cooking, that's fine for them, but she gets little pleasure from it herself. On the other hand, she certainly sees food as worthwhile. For this reason, she advocates eating food raw, or with as little cooking as possible. She notes that if you fuss over food and make it too good, people will be tempted to eat more than they need and get fat, but that nobody ever got fat on a diet of raw foods-they eat what they need and then stop. Seasonings and sweeteners also lead to overindulgence, and so she rarely uses them. Her breads chapter is somewhat unique in that there is hardly a recipe calling for yeast, and few that are even baked. She suggests eating foods raw that many have never considered, such as potatoes, oats, or even wheat berries. Though much of her advice is profound, she does make one suggestion that makes me pause. She notes that she and Scott were not in the habit of supplementing their food with beverages, not even water, and that a single glass of water could last a week for them. Odd. Nevertheless, it's hard to argue with someone about their diet when both she and her husband lived healthy and active lives into their late nineties.
simplify.......2002-09-19
I borrowed this book from my local library. Not being able to sleep one night, I picked it up and dug into page one. At 2 am, I finally set it down, reading the entire volume in one entranced sitting, eagerly anticipating the next morning when I could try some horse chow for breakfast rather than my usual cooked oatmeal glop. A handful of raw oats, a banana, some nuts, a few raisins, and a splash of soy milk was all it took that morning for me to become addicted to a way of eating that makes so much sense, it's amazing to think of mind-numbing habits that contribute to the dismal American diet. I love the author's no-nonsense approach, writing for "the rest of us" that don't relate to the idea of spending three hours in the kitchen to make a meal that will be gulped down in twenty minutes. I recommend it to anyone wishing to slow down and simplify in this diet-crazed country of ours.
...Buy It For the Simple Recipes..........2002-04-30
...because the recipes are the best part of this book. I'm not particularly fond of the writer's style, though one could admire the honesty and candor in her writing. To me she seems just too self-righteous, and I'm not too fond of any book where meat-eaters get unnecessarily criticized. If I choose not to eat meat, why in the world would I want to bash those who do? What? Does it make ME look better? Make THEM feel stupid for their choices? To me that doesn't really accomplish anything, and only pushes people further away. She has a real take it or leave it attitude ("here's what I cooked. Eat it. If you like it, good. If you don't, go get it somewhere else.") Well, it's pretty easy for her to have that attitude, because she and her husband eat the same way...she can afford to make that statement without great risk. I just wasn't feeling her attitude in this book, but to her credit, her recipes are great. Nothing is too time consuming, and everything is healthful and all natural...just the way I like to eat. If you want to create food that's simple, close to the earth, and fast and easy, without much fuss or muss, or if you just plain old hate to cook, then this IS the book for you...read it and enjoy...
Customer Reviews:
I loved this book.......2001-12-12
Helen Nearing does not mince words. She tells it like she thinks it, which is part of the beauty of her style. This book will make you thing about the way you eat, and what you feed those you love, so get ready to have some assumptions challenged. I have used some of the recipes in this text, and have not been disappointed (try any of the salads or the banana cookies for a snack).
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