Judas Child

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This still haunts me...

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Judas Child
Carol O'Connell
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Crime School: A Mallory Novel

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Readers familiar with Mallory, the intriguing and original heroine of O'Connell's four previous suspense novels, will recognize familiar themes of loss and abandonment in the brilliant, enigmatic forensic psychologist Ali Cray, whose scarred face only hints at the emotional residue of a childhood trauma. Ali ties the mysterious disappearance of two young girls to the rape and murder long ago of Susan Kendall, the twin sister of a small-town New York policeman, Rouge. Realizing that the priest who was convicted of Susan Kendall's murder is probably innocent, Rouge has a personal as well as professional reason for joining Ali in tracking down Susan's killer before he completes the ritual murder of at least one of the missing girls.

The protagonists of Judas Child are direct literary descendants of Mallory, the author's earlier creation; like her, their childhood suffering illuminates their adult character and motivation. But while Mallory can only react to the past, Rouge and Ali find in each other a mirror that lights up the dark corners of their past and frees them of the survivor guilt both suffer. O'Connell's same penetrating psychological insight animates the novel's other characters: Dr. Mortimer Cray, Ali's uncle, a psychiatrist who bears the awful burden of knowing who the killer is but is constrained by professional ethics from revealing it; gutsy, clever Sadie Green, the Judas child of the title, and her irritating, annoying, desperate mother, Becca; FBI agent Arnie Pyle, who's dying to know how Ali got her scar; and Father Paul Marie, jailed for 15 years for a crime he may not have committed. The opening sentence grabs the reader, and doesn't let go till the last page. In her skilled rendering of psychological suspense, O'Connell is on a par with Barbara Vine and Frances Fyfield; like Jonathan Kellerman, she is also an astute observer of children, especially those who survive the most terrifying youthful traumas and betrayals. Judas Child may be O'Connell's "breakout" book, and it will surely send readers who've just discovered her in search of her backlist while they await her next one. --Jane Adams

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Carol O'Connell has been consistently praised as a gifted storyteller (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel), the author of stylishly innovative (San Francisco Chronicle), immensely affecting (Miami Herald) novels with an irresistible narrative force (Publishers Weekly). Now, she gives us a stunning new creation. It is three days before Christmas, and two young girls have disappeared from the local academy. This hasn't happened for fifteen years, since Rouge Kendall's twin sister was murdered. The killer was found, but now Rouge, twenty-five and a policeman, is forced to wonder: was he really the one? Also wondering is a former classmate named Ali Cray, a forensic psychologist with scars of her own. The pattern is the same, she says: a child called out to meet a friend. The friend is the bait, the judas child, and is quickly killed. But the primary victim lives longer . . . until Christmas Day. Rouge doesn't want to hear this. He's spent the last fifteen years trying to avoid the memories: drinking alone, laying low, washing out of school and a promising first career. Now he might abandon law enforcement, too--but something won't let him, not yet. A little girl has haunted his dreams all these years--and he has three days finally to put her to rest. Filled with the rich prose, resonant characters, and knife-edge suspense that have won the author so many fans, Judas Child is Carol O'Connell's most powerful novel yet.

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This still haunts me..........2007-09-17

I have only recently discovered Carol O'Connell, and I am working my way through her novels. I love the Mallory series, but picked this one up because it's by the same author. It was a gripping, can't-put-this-down read. The ending still haunts me.

A Great Read!.......2007-09-07

I love this author anyway, but this is just simply wonderful and one of the best reads ever.

Suspenseful Page Turner.......2007-01-08

This is the second time I read this and I'll keep it to read again. The plot was suspenseful and unpredictable and well written. This is the only novel that I have read by this author but look forward to reading others. This is definitely a fast paced page turner and would recommend to anyone who enjoys mysteries or thrillers. You won't be disappointed.

Read this book.......2006-10-26

This is the best book I've ever read.....almost. After the first few pages, when it seems young girls are disappearing and found dead, I threatened the recommender with dismemberment b/c I have little girls at home. But as I kept on, I was hooked. It is well written with a phenomenal ending. Not for those who read the last pages first.

An intensely atmospheric story.......2006-02-13

I bought this book out of desperation, because I had read all the Mallory books from this author and this was the only one left for me to read.

The first couple of chapters were a bit slow and I had trouble focusing on the characters. After that, however, I was so gripped by the story and the atmosphere that I had to finish this book quickly before I could go on with my life, and was terribly sad when I did finish it...

When both these feelings occur, I know that the book I just read did exactly what I wanted it to. I am an avid reader of mysteres, and Ms. O'Connell does her job well. I sure wish she'd write another book quickly...

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The Child of Judas

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The Child of Judas
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Judas Child
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Judas Child
Carol O'Connell
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5 Titles By Robert B. Parker Spenser Series : The Godwulf Manuscript God Save the Child Promised Land The Judas Goat Looking for Rachel Wallace

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5 Titles By Robert B. Parker Spenser Series : The Godwulf Manuscript God Save the Child Promised Land The Judas Goat Looking for Rachel Wallace
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5 Titles in Spencer Novel Series: God Save the Child - Mortal Stakes - Promised Land - The Judas Goat - Looking for Rachel Wallace

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5 Titles in Spencer Novel Series: God Save the Child - Mortal Stakes - Promised Land - The Judas Goat - Looking for Rachel Wallace
Robert B. Parker
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Judas Child
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Graphic SF Reader.......2007-09-03

Alan Moore took this as an opportunity to try something completely different with the Swamp Thing character, and pretty much succeeded. While I am not as much a fan of this as some people, it is still pretty good.

The Swamp Thing series also introduces to someone perhaps a bit more interesting. John Constantine, Hellblazer.

Where the comics revolution REALLY began.......2007-06-18

Many would say that the comic industry was redefined by works such as Watchmen and The Dark Knight returns, but for me (and there are countless people who would agree with me on this one) it all started with the first issue of Swamp Thing included in this collection. "The Anatomy Lesson" heralded a new narrative structure and a literary voice that still rings in the ears of most comic book fantatics to this day: Alan Moore. After clearing up some unfinished storylines before starting his revamp of the character Moore started to cut loose, and Saga of the Swamp Thing moved from an obscure horror comic book into legend. Not only is "The Anatomy Lesson" brilliant, but there are other stories in here that would rank as some of my favorites of all time. Though some people might claim that Moore was still trying out panel transitions and experimental narrative structures that did not always work, I disagree. They worked perfectly, and make reading the comic so much more enjoyable. If the narrative seems long-winded to some, well then, they can just go ahead and feast their eyes on the gorgeous art (courtesy of John Totleben and Steve Bissette). I also have to mention the very last issue in this collection as a counterpoint to the first, entitled "By Demons Driven." This story gives us a taste of things to come in future collections, and just when events just can't seem to get any darker the last panel of this issue proves us wrong. Even if you're not a comic fan, you should get this. See where it all really began. Buy it. Read it. Let the words penetrate the root systems of your mind. Smell the moss. Taste the fear...hold it in your hands. Saga of the Swamp Thing.

the beginning of a horror masterwork.......2006-10-14

"No death, no doom, no anguish can arouse the surpassing dispair which flows from a loss of identity. Merging with nothingness is peaceful oblivion; but to be aware of existence and yet to know that one is no longer a definite being distinguished from other beings - that one no longer has a self - that is the nameless summit of agony and dread." - H.P. Lovecraft

The ability to communicate this concept, sudden and total loss of identity, is a high achivement. -That- is psychological horror, and Swamp Thing delivers with gusto. The elemental forces of horror, combined with the most efficent form of story-telling, all under the direction of masters of the craft. If you know how to read, read this.

Sophisticated Suspense.......2006-08-17

The above title was once the series tagline. Anyway, Vol.1 starts off with the autopsy of Swamp Thing by the Floronic Man showing that Swamp Thing was never human. He was only the memories of Holland combined into the living swamp. He soon returns to the swamp and sets up roots in the swamp and begins to grow some sort of vegetables. Abigail soon finds Swamp Thing and is confronted by the Floronic Man and tells her the above information. However, once Floronic Man gets in touch with his inner plant, he goes on a rampage and destroys many houses and takes many lives. Swamp Thing soon comes out of his catonic state and confronts Floronic Man and tells him he's hurting 'the green'. This chapter also features a special series of camo's by the JLA. The book then takes a supernatural turn when Abigail takes a job at a childrens asylumn. One child in particular knows a very dark and disturbing secret. The last few chapters involve the demon Etrigan as well.

This was a very good series of chapters. It starts out slow, but eventually, you just can't put this book down. My favorite chapter is 'The Sleep of Reason', when we are introduced to Paul (the disturbed child, who Abigail works with)and his macabre 'visions' of the so called 'Monkey King' demon. Also, Etrigan enters the fray. Great first run by Alan Moore. I hope to get more of his Swamp Thing series soon. A very good read for any comic fan. (By the way: I'm 15).

You can't kill a vegetable..........2006-07-01

After ending the twenty issue run of Martin Pasko for him, Alan Moore presents a retcon of the Swamp Thing character and brings in DC minor characters such as the Demon and Floronic Man. In his changes to Swamp Thing's origins Moore shows his brilliance and brings the character much closer to the swamp itself. All this with great lines like "You can't kill a vegetable by shooting it in the head", and you have another great trade paperback. However, what could you have really expected, it's Alan Moore.

Saga of the Swamp Thing 1987 Graphic Novel (1)

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Saga of the Swamp Thing 1987 Graphic Novel (1)

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1987 Earlier version of the current Swamp Thing Graphic Novel by Alan Moore. A must have for any fan!

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Hex No. 10 Jun "Cult of Death"
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It's not as complicated as Sears wants you to believe

More figuring out if you're female

Not enough edible recipes

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Zone Perfect Meals in Minutes: 150 Fast and Simple Healthy Recipes from the Bestselling Authorof the Zone and Mastering the Zone
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Barry Sears got a lot of attention--and royalties--with his diet books The Zone and Mastering the Zone. Sears believes that the food you eat is one of the most powerful drugs you will ever encounter, and a lot of people get fat and sick using food in misguided ways. Sears believes that using it the right way can lead to increased physical stamina, sharpened mental focus, and a reduced likelihood of developing chronic diseases--and you'll probably shed unwanted pounds along the way. Sears calls for a diet based on "hormonal thinking," not the usual calorie counting and fat measuring. Some of the rules of the diet are eating small meals throughout the day, having some protein at every meal, always eating the necessary amount of fruits and vegetables, and taking cod-liver oil. To make all of this as painless as possible, Sears has created 150 "Zone"-perfect meals that are easy to prepare and require little planning.

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Two million people are already in the Zone, enjoying peak mental alertness, increased energy, and a reduced likelihood of chronic disease –– all while losing excess body fat. Want to get into the Zone but don't have the time? Now, in this all–new collection of easy and delicious recipes, Dr. Barry Sears, the bestselling author of The Zone and Mastering the Zone shows you how to prepare more than 150 Zone–Perfect recipes in minutes.

If you want to think better, perform better, look better, and live better, Zone–Perfect Meals in Minutes will get you there and keep you there.

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It's not as complicated as Sears wants you to believe.......2006-08-15

Sears wants you to think he has come up with a complicated system which he calls The Zone.

In reality, all you need is to eat naturally, like our ancestors did thousands of years ago. Eat greens, vegetables, berries, fruit, mushrooms, nuts. Eat lean meat (our ancestors hunted for healthy, lean animals). Eat egg whites, but avoid yolks. Most of the modern contaminants stick to fat molecules, and yolks are mostly fat. Plus it's the wrong type of fat, as chickens are not fed properly. Eat wild fish (but not too often; don't forget about pollutants).

That's it. Forget grains (and everything made from them). Forget potatoes and hard beans, soda and juices. Forget vegetable oils. All that junk is completely unnatural for humans to eat; our ancestors couldn't imagine that was edible. And that's why we have diseases that they didn't have.

Forget milk. Milk is only good for babies under 3 years old. Studies show that milk (and even yogurt) causes hyperinsulinemia (insulin "spikes" that lead to diabetes etc.) in adults.

Yes, his advice to take fish oil is great. Farm-raised animals are fed with junk food; consequently, they lack certain fatty acids that are vital for our health. Fish oil is a convenient way of restoring the balance. But Sears' fish oil is not the purest and cheapest on the market.

I'm a physiologist, and I've helped a number of people to change their eating habits. Those people have gotten rid of many problems, like obesity, allergies, asthma, arthritis, and excessive fatigue. And they don't complain that the food is not delicious enough. They learned to use their imagination a little bit and combine various healthy foods to create their nice and simple "recipes", and realized they enjoy their food even more than before.

More figuring out if you're female.......2006-07-04

The Zone is a great diet if you have good recipes (not many in here) and if it has the proportions that you need for your personal meal. I've gotten a few good ones out of "What to Eat in the Zone". There are two different weekly menus - for women and for men. Not so in this book. It is based entirely on men. If you are a woman, you have to figure it out for yourself how much to cut down on the ingredients. Some things are obvious - if it calls for 4 oz of meat, you go to 3 oz. But the rest of the recipe is too difficult to figure out. Some people say the Zone is complicated enough as it is, and this book doesn't make a case against that, unless, of course, you are a man.
Also, the desserts are usually figured for 4 to 8 servings. If you're the only one in the house on the diet, too bad. These aren't things that freeze or store well either.
I'm glad I didn't pay full price for this book, as I'd be disappointed.

Not enough edible recipes.......2006-06-12

This book was good in that I could skim through 3 short chapters and understand the Zone concept completely. It's really all I needed to know to get going. Also, the quick list of food blocks in the back was great. However, the recipes are gross. I have never seen so much cabbage in a cookbook. Just gross. The Formula has better recipes.

Ludicrous is right!.......2006-03-28

I'm a Zone diet believer - but this book is a serious letdown. Two major problems with this worthless book:
1. Almost all of the recipes involve *far* too much preparation - the title is *very* misleading.
2. I find it hard to believe that anyone actually prepared these recipes, and thought they were *good*! Most of the meals are horrible due to the *huge* proportion of vegetables. I mean, an omelet with over 3 cups of asparagus???

More like meals in an hour.......2006-01-26

As usual, I was impressed with Dr. Sears' commentary on his Zone diet, but I was fairly disappointed with the recipes in this book. I was happy I bought it used because I never really open it. The only thing I actually use from the book is the list of mix-and-match snacks at the very end. The recipes are horribly complicated, time-consuming and call for ingredients you probably wouldn't normally have in your kitchen. I have yet to actually make a meal from this book because I simply do not have the time. I'm sure that if I did, it would taste wonderful, but because the title of the book "Meals in Minutes" is so far from the truth, I'm giving it a 2 out of 5. If you're thinking about purchasing this book, go with a used edition, and keep in mind that you won't be getting quick and easy meals ... but rather gourmet meals that will take about an hour to prepare and make.

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Here is the first book all the great sauces of practical, workable system. Raymond Sokolov, the widely admired former Food Editor of The first to point out that the hitherto mysterious saucier's art, as practiced by the best restaurant chefs, is based on what amounts to an elegant "fast food" technique. And this is what he demonstrates in his unique, useful, and witty book:
-- How to prepare, at your leisure, the three fundamental classic sauces (the "mother" sauces from which all others evolve: Brown, White, and Fish Veloute)...
-- How to freeze them in one-meal-size containers, ready for use at a moment's notice...
-- How to transform any of these basic put-away sauces, quickly and easily, into the exact ones that French chefs are famous for and serve in the finest restaurants...
-- How to prepare the classic dish for which each sauce is traditionally used, with suggestions for enhancing simpler fare (the recipes run the gamut from Duckling a la Bigarade to Poached Eggs Petit-Duc -- that is, with Chateaubriand Sauce).

Mr. Sokolov has conceived, then, a comprehensive collection of recipes -- authoritative, clear, and easy to follow -- as well as an inventive method of cooking for the average kitchen. Peppered with culinary lore and with reassuring accounts of the author's own experiences as a modern-day Saucier's Apprentice, here is a book that will appeal to every good amateur cook who wants to produce sumptuous fare at home for occasions great and small.

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Saucier's apprentice.......2007-05-13

If you like to cook and are interested in different sauces.this is a great buy!!!

Saucier's best friend.......2006-07-13

I first was introduced to this book at culinary school in the early 1990s. This is a modern look at the classic techniques of the 19th century Escoffier, the foremost authority on French cookery as established by Careme. Escoffier brought order to the professional kitchen, and maintained the high standards of the French palate. The recipes included in this book, however antiquated, are the basic principles of cooking all professional chefs, and serious "foodies" alike, should use in their cooking every day. With a little imagination, every cook can create his or her own signature dishes by using delicious sauces to accompany their fresh and perfectly cooked meat, fish or vegetable. Even more delightful, the historian in me is fascinated with the historical accounts of the development of French cookery; and the comic in me so enjoys the wit used in the author's address to such a serious subject of many a cook's discipline and heart.

Absolutely the greatest sauce book for traditional French sauces.......2006-06-24

I have browsed through many sauce books in the past several years, and found two to be indispensable: Raymond Sokolov's THE SAUCIER'S APPRENTICE and Michel Roux's SAUCES. Both books accomplish their goals impeccably. Roux wishes to present readers with a faster way to produce restaurant quality sauces, providing readers with beautiful appetizing photos for each sauce in the process. It is a book meant not to scare off amateur chefs who are inclined to choose a "Betty Crocker" book rather than a real top notch text on traditional French cooking. Sokolov, on the other hand, appeals to the already converted French gourmet/gourmand. There are no photos, nor are they necessary, since his language is so descriptive and precise, it really creates a photo in your mind.

I spent two days preparing the mother sauce for brown sauces and the result was spectacular. I've eaten at many of the top four and five star restaurants in New York, many restaurants throughout Europe (I lived in Germany near the French border for over three years), many restaurants in Chicago, and have never tasted better sauces than those I produced at home from the mother sauce. Here's the trick. You should follow Sokolov's instructions. After you've been through the process, you can get creative if you wish. But keep in mind Sokolov's goal is to teach amateur and professional chefs how to make TRADITIONAL SAUCES, not modern incarnations that use lots of fruits, etc.

Saucier's Apprentice.......2006-02-28

This book was recommended to me by a professional chef I was taking lessons with, while I have not been through the entire book it looks great and takes the mystery out of sauces. Nothing like a great sauce to make an every day meal special...Go for it

Saucemaking Systematized.......2006-02-08

It's hard to believe that Sokolov was the first to systematize the repetoir of French sauces: once you've read his outline, which uses bases, methods, and additional ingredients to clearly chart the classic sauces, you will never again see the saucier's craft as mysterious and impenetrable. The organization is so lucid and well-conceived that you will forever after be able to conjure a most accessible mental diagram of what was, until this book, all but hermetic. The book is organized around chapters for each of the basic sauce groups: brown sauces, white sauces, Bechamels, emulsified sauces, and butter sauces. Additional sections cover compound butter sauces and desert sauces. He includes 'geneologies' of brown sauces, ordinary veloute sauces, chicken veloute sauces, fish fumet and veloute sauces, and Bechamels. With this system in place, one can see clearly that most French sauces start with bases to which certain ingredients and techniques are applied to make the sauce suitable for certain dishes. The 'geneologies' are clearly charted, with demi-glace [the base for 'brown' sauces] above Bourgignonne and Duxelles [two of the 25 classic, orthodox, brown sauces that include demi-glace], for example, and then the recipes show not just the base, but the individual variants AND good recipes for dishes that classically rely upon that sauce.

At the heart of all this systematizing are a couple of hard truths: to make Sauce Chasseur, which in itself appears not too formidable, one must first make the demi-glace, the Sauce Tomate, and the glace de viande it lists, rather coyly I must say, as ingredients. The 10 ingredients of Sauce Chasseur, plus the 16 ingredients of demi-glace, plus the 12 ingredients of Sauce Tomate, plus the glace de viande, which is a highly-reduces demi-glace, turns out to be one hell of a recipe. The idea, of course, is that you make the bases ahead of time and freeze them, and then use them as needed. Bloody hell. The results are spectacular, and so is the labor required to get there. BUT: what greater gift can you give your friends than a classic sauce a couple of times a year? Except it be to lay down your life for them?

The book is entertaining and informative even if you won't, really, ever cook from it. But if you are one of the few, crazed, determined food acolytes out there, buy this book and a 40-quart stock pot and 20 lbs of veal bones...

The Saucier's Apprentice and Other Stories

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The Saucier's Apprentice and Other Stories
S. J. Perelman
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The Saucier's Apprentice: An Amateur's Adventures in the Great Cooking Schools of Europe

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The Saucier's Apprentice: An Amateur's Adventures in the Great Cooking Schools of Europe
Bob Spitz
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The Saucier's Apprentice a Modern Guide to Classic French Sauces for the Home

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The Saucier's Apprentice a Modern Guide to Classic French Sauces for the Home
Sokolov Raymond
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THE SAUCIER'S APPRENTICE: A MODERN GUIDE TO CLASSIC FRENCH SAUCES FOR THE HOME.
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