Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Murder: A Revolutionary War Mystery

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Engrossing debut!!

Good read

A fun adventure

A strong heroine makes a fine debut

Fine story, poor editing.

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Murder: A Revolutionary War Mystery
Karen Swee
Manufacturer: Bridge Works
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1882593782

Book Description

A tavernmistress in 1777 unravels a puzzle that involves stolen diplomatic letters, spies and avaricious traitors, while trying to find the killer of an overnight guest.

Customer Reviews:

Engrossing debut!!.......2004-12-02

I was truly looking forward to reading this book as I am a fan of the historical mystery/thriller genre and this book did not disappoint. I particularly enjoyed the well-developed, detailed characters - the strong lead character of Abigail was especially satisfying. She drew me in and kept me rooting for her (and everyone else at the Raritan Tavern) page after page. The amount of historical detail provided was perfect.

My only criticism of this book (and the reason I gave it 4 instead of 5 stars) is that the explanation of the formation of the group of men responsible for the letters and escorting the courier, etc. was a bit rushed and muddy. I had to re-read this section a few times before I thought I had it, and understood who was doing what when and who knew the secret before the mystery was unraveled. However, I quite enjoyed the novel and thought it ended too soon...I enjoyed the plot line begun towards the end of the novel and would have loved to have read the outcome of Miriam's search. However, it's not so much criticism as it is praise...bravo to the author on an engrossing read! I anticipate (hopefully!) a sequel!

Good read.......2004-06-22

I picked this up in the library in paperback, based on the cover design. Who says you can't judge a book by its cover? This book was worth the read - very entertaining and a good combination of history and murder mystery. This book included a strong female character as well as insights into the role of women in that time period, which was interesting and easy to believe (as a work of historical fiction, you can't be sure where fact & fiction separate).

Check it out!

A fun adventure.......2004-02-26

This book was such a fun adventure! Abigail Lawrence is an instantly likeable character with a loveable staff at her taven/inn in New Brunswick during the Revolutionary War. This wonderful first novel by Karen Swee makes you wish you could travel back in time to help her solve the murder of one of her guests. I was sad when the book ended because I felt like I was just getting to know the characters. I would have loved even more descriptions of personality and locale and wouldn't mind if this were the first in a series of books about our friends at Rarian Tavern. Hint hint!

A strong heroine makes a fine debut.......2004-01-20

Set in British-occupied New Brunswick, New Jersey, in the winter of 1777, Swee's debut offers a fine, tense portrait of the times and a bustling view of tavern life under siege.

Narrator and heroine Abigail Lawrence has her hands full. British soldiers are billeted throughout the tavern she has managed for her Uncle Samuel (a Patriot) since losing her husband and son to a fever eight years before. Her 15-year-old-daughter is smitten with one of the dashing young officers; one slip of her rebel tongue would lose the tavern to the British; and then she finds a guest's body in one of the rooms, impaled by a sword.

Pocketing evidence to keep it out of the hands of an imperious British captain, Abigail lands herself in the midst of an intrigue of espionage and treachery. And she still has a tavern to run.

The tavern milieu is exceptionally well done - from clothing, wartime food concerns and the useful organization of the warming kitchen, to the stables, sleeping accommodations, the fine meals and gossipy service, the evening card games and brandy, and the behind-the-scenes work of laundry, kitchen and bill-paying - all of it organic to the setting and plot.

The British and Patriot points-of-view are also subtly done, and the mystery sufficiently baffling. A strong woman who balances on a knife-edge of neutrality, and knows how to pick her battles, Abigail is an appealing, intelligent heroine.

Fine story, poor editing........2004-01-04

Book entertaining, well written, and with a clever and engrossing story line. Excellent description of occupying British troops, political views of the day for both sides, and good work on the personal aspects. Only problem is one that can be corrected with good editing. That is punctuation. This book is sadly lacking in good editing.
Example: "How are you Abigail?" No comma before the proper name. This occurs steadily throughout the book, as well as other poor editing examples, detracting from what should have been a 5 star read!!!!!!!

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I want to vote 3.5

Super Reader

Never really got into it

A World with Lovely Witches

The start of one of the world's great fantasy series
Witch World 01
Andre Norton
Manufacturer: Ace
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 044189707X

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I want to vote 3.5.......2007-09-27

I had somehow picked up a few Norton novels at a garage sale and I just finished this book. I am a fan of science fiction, and much more a fan of fantasy. The presence of both was the one thing that made me choose to give this a four rather than a three. Norton went in directions I didn't see coming and made an interesting mix of the two genres. Also, even though it has been done before, I like idea of person from our world being taken to another (however, I like Guy Gavriel Kay's trilogy better, and Stephen King's Gunslinger series even more).
The reason I rated it lower than a 5 is that I feel that the characters are not that developed. It's disappointing to see such an interesting story and world but yet feel unattached and somewhat bored with the characters. Towards the end (I won't give anything away) when relationships change, I found myself caring so very little for the characters that the events had no impact on me.
I plan on reading the sequel and perhaps the characters will become easier to sympathize with and care for. Obviously the story is good enough to make me want to read the next one. However, I hope Ms. Norton simply laid the foundation in this first novel of the witch world, and in the sequels went ahead and fleshed out these characters.

Super Reader.......2007-08-30

Not too bad. Fairly standard modern man goes to another place that is a fantasy world type story. A dashing military man of action type guy, in this case. Basically, your standard Edgar Rice Burroughs setup for this sort of thing, then a little different once he gets there.

He is lured to a house by a man who promises an interesting artifact. He certainly gets a lot more than he bargained for.

Never really got into it.......2007-07-27

Simon Tregarth is a wanted man. In his desperation he makes a bargain with a man who has a reputation of making wanted people unfindable. It turns out he has access to a magical stone arch that can transport Simon to a completely different world. After this (tacked on) beginning (a common device in earlier fantasy) Simon finds and saves the life of female fugitive. It tuns out that she is a witch, part of the realm of Estcarp where females have the ability to perform magic, and use it to protect themselves from conquest by other kingdoms. Only the women of Estcarp have the ability to perform magic, yet strangely Simon has precognitive abilities in this world. There are other powerful forces at work slowly infiltrating the neighbouring realms and seeking to conquer Estcarp, who appear to also be able to do magic, including the animation of corpses to do their bidding. But is it magic or technology?

Unfortunately I was just never able to get involved in the story. I don't know why. The premise was interesting, it just didn't grab me the way a good story should. I think it was too episodic, and difficult to relate to the main characters. I'd give it 2.5 stars (rounded up for Amazon)

A World with Lovely Witches.......2006-12-08

Norton started writing in the thirties, but really made a name for herself with her very competent, sometimes brilliant YA science fiction works she produced from the late forties through the early sixties, such as The Beast Master, Starman's Son, and The Last Planet (aka The Star Rangers). With this book, she took a giant step in a new direction, that of an adult fantasy, a book that spawned a veritable library of sequels and other stories set in the same universe, most written by her, but some written by others or as collaborators with her. Today it still stands as one of her best works.

Simon Tregarth is a man on the run from various shadowy ruffians, people he associated with because he was wrongly convicted of working the black market while in the military. Willing to try anything, he ends up passing through the Siege Perilous, a megalith which apparently is actually a gate to another world. There he immediately finds himself embroiled in a war between the Witches of Estcarp and the alien, technologically advanced Kolder, and somewhat in love with one of the Witches, even though she is bound to remain a virgin if she wishes to retain her powers.

The magic of this book lies not so much in the overt acts of magic that are performed as part of this war, nor even in Simon's growth into a hero with honor, but rather it is in the richness, the otherworldliness of this imagined world. From intimations of its past, highlighted by the Sulcarmen's possession of obvious high-technology devices, now totally forgotten by the rest of the world, to the realization that Estcarp is merely a small sliver of what once was a much larger nation with much greater magical powers, this world creeps into your subconscious, makes you feel its reality and uniqueness. As others have mentioned, this world really does seep into your dreams, makes you wish you could be there, have a part in its actions.

Along the way, there are questions raised about the proper roles of men and women, a theme that would recur throughout much of Norton's later works, as she consistently championed the (for its day) radical idea that people should be allowed to do whatever their capabilities fit them for, that society not only should not, but cannot force people into subservient or socially acceptable roles merely because of their gender. Determination, honesty, a sense of honor, and bravery in the face of overwhelming odds run right alongside this idea, at sharp variance with all too many `literary' books that seem to have mediocrity as their highest goal.

Perhaps this book doesn't have quite the power of Lord of the Rings, but at the same time it may be more accessible, more `believable' as a real world that you just might be able to go to - if you could only find a `gate' to take you there.

---Reviewed by Patrick Shepherd (hyperpat)

The start of one of the world's great fantasy series.......2005-10-01

How many times have you fallen asleep and dreamt you were in the fantasy world created by your favorite author? I've only had that experience once in my life and my dream took place in Andre Norton's Witch World.

This author kept me turning the pages, not only for the cliff-hangers that the hero, Simon Tregarth gets himself into, but also for glimpses of a strange new, magical landscape. She doesn't pile on the adjectives, either. Her prose is remarkably clean. Just read the lead sentence of "Witch World," which introduces us to ex-soldier, Simon Tregarth:

"The rain was a slantwise curtain across the dingy street, washing soot from city walls, the taste of it metallic on the lips of the tall, thin man who walked with a loping stride close to the buildings, watching the mouths of doorways, the gaps of alleys with a narrow-eyed intentness."

He is a hunted man, unjustly cashiered from the U.S. Army for dealing in the post-war blackmarket. Since Simon had been labeled as a crook, he figured he might as well play the game.

After seven years in the underworld, surrounded by his enemies and a gunshot away from death, Simon treats himself to a decent last meal (Andre Norton heroes and heroines NEVER whine. They assess the odds, then keep on slogging). Enter the mysterious Doctor Petronius who persuades Simon that he has nothing to lose by vanishing from his enemies' gunsights through the Siege Perilous, a Cornish megalith that is rumored to be a gate to other worlds. Simon leaves the restaurant with Petronius, almost positive that he is walking into a trap. Instead of the bullet he is expecting, our hero is transported to the foggy moors of a new world.

The action doesn't let up. The first thing Simon does is rescue a witch from a nasty bunch of snake-headed dogs and hunters (we don't learn the witch's name until the very end of the book). The next thing he knows, he's embroiled in a war where the good guys appear to be losing.

Simon allies himself with "a tall, proud-walking race with...the carriage of rulers and an odd weight of years upon them." His new home, medieval Estcarp is a matriarchate, ruled by witches, whose powers depend on their continuing virginity. Nevertheless, Simon falls in love with the witch he rescued.

The enemies that he and Estcarp must confront have invaded Witch World via a gate similar to the Siege Perilous. The alien Kolder are technically advanced, with submarines and mind-control devices that they use to command their zombie soldiers.

Estcarp's only allies are the Sulcarmen, seafaring warriors and traders who lose their main port of Gorm to the Kolder. Simon, his friend Koris of Gorm, the witch he rescued from the Hounds of Alizon, and a youthful soldier called 'Briant' tread the mysterious byways of Estcarp and its warring neighbors, in an attempt to track down and destroy the technically superior aliens.

Lifetime Grand Master of Fantasy, Andre Norton built well. There are 35 Witch World (WW) fantasies, and the count is probably still rising even though this author passed away on March 17, 2005. Many of the later WW novels were collaborations, and it wouldn't surprise me if her co-authors attempt to live on in the world that the Grand Master created. I wish them well, but so far they have not managed to penetrate the brilliantly weird landscapes of Andre Norton's imagination.

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A breakup, divorce, or loss of a loved one isn't just the end of your relationship with that person. It's a continuation of every feeling of abandonment you've ever suffered. It's the loss of a system of approval you'd come to depend on. The struggle, as Gray points out in Starting Over, isn't just to find a new partner, but to get over those feelings of abandonment or loss or anger or whatever else gets dredged up by the end of a relationship.

Perhaps the book's most crucial chapter posits that the best way to get over the loss of love is to focus on the "love" more than the "loss." That may seem impossible, especially if the bum took off with your best friend, your life savings, and your Lyle Lovett CDs, but Gray didn't get to be a household name because the advice in his Venus and Mars books doesn't work. Remembering only the bad parts, Gray says, leaves you with an important part of your emotional being closed to new business.

As for the Venus and Mars stuff, that comes in the second half of the book, when Gray looks at how men and women start new relationships from different points of view, with different priorities (a man might want to have fun with no strings attached; a woman might carry with her a lengthy list of requirements for her next partner, a list that excludes virtually all available men).

If you've never read Gray's work before, you have to be prepared to check your cynicism at the door. This is earnest stuff, but it's also based on decades of experience counseling clients. He's not one of those photogenic, nine-times-divorced shrinklets who's telling you how to conduct your relationships without any real clue of what makes love last. This is the real package: nothing glib, nothing quick and easy, nothing you could've figured out from a "Love Is..." cartoon.

Book Description

Is it possible to find love again after a breakup, death, or divorce?

At the end of a relationship, it can sometimes feel like the end of the world. Devastation, loneliness, and bitterness are some emotions that exist due to a breakup, divorce, or the loss of a loved one. But with the help of this compassionate guide, Dr. John Gray expresses that you will survive and tells you how to find love again.

While the process of healing is similar with both sexes, there are distinct differences between the ways men and women heal their bruised hearts. In Mars and Venus Starting Over, Dr. Gray offers gender-specific advice on how to:

Deal with pain
Find forgiveness
Discover the strength to let go
Rebuild confidence
Rise to the challenge of finding fulfillment again

Filled with gentle guidance, healing practices, and compassionate wisdom, Mars and Venus Starting Over will help men and women explore the meaning of loss, find their way through the healing process, and discover the secret to moving on.

Customer Reviews:

Much needed insight.......2007-05-16

This book is insightfully written and is valuable in making relationships (of all kinds, not just romantic ones)work when dealing with someone who has experience the trauma of relationship loss. John Gray's entire series help take the sting out of interpersonal relationships by shining light on reactions that are not actually personal in intent but common across most people. This makes it easier to get along with other people and to avoid some basic male-female relating mistakes.

Dr. Gray in another of his Mars Venus books.......2007-01-20

These books are getting old. Same story as the last... same story as the next. Easiest way to get over someone is to get under someone ELSE!

A new start is always good.......2006-11-16

You don't have to divorce or die to start over. This is a good book to read for people who just need see their relationship from a different perspective or view. Relationships don't have to end to "start over". This is a book that can help you reevaluate your life and your relationships. The loss of a "loved one" does not always have to be permanent.

excellent guidance for moving on/& letting go of pain/hurt.......2006-09-29

typical John Gray take on male/female differences in dealing with loss, break-ups, or divorce, I found myself learning more & realizing what we tend to do without awareness when we have had our hearts broken & life altered, especially after any long-term marriage/relationship of 20+ years, it is not only a loss/death of a marriage, it is a total change of life-style, mind-set,& new set of rules, but what John Gray helped me to see is without healing properly from this event or any major loss, that if we don't grieve, & feel all the emotions from sadness, sorrow, fear, to anger we can't release the unhealthy part of that relationship & move forward to love & be more balanced in a new relationship, I think it will help me & others who have a desire to grow & be more balanced, without as John says by (giving too much or avoiding intimacy) I would advise this to anyone ready to move forward in their life with a open heart towards others.

THE GOSPEL TRUTH AND "FOREWARNED IS FOREARMED".......2005-09-24

This is the first book that clarified for me what men are doing when they use women the way they do after they get divorced. I'm a coach who works with midlife daters, and I see it all the time. I hoped it was just a few bad apples. Evidentally not. According to Gray, it's more the norm. That's like finding out there isn't a Santa Claus ... an illusion destroyed, but good to know, because a man "in transition" is simply not available emotionally, yet can be the most romantic and ardent seducer the woman has ever had, so she never sees it coming. He gets his ego back together and drops her like a hot potato.

The term "on the rebound" has been with us for decades. Believe it.

This book explains what we see -- men getting attached to the first woman who shows up at their wife's funeral "with a casserole and cleavage", so good women, women who think that's rude don't have a chance...but Gray clarifies what they're missing isn't much. (You tell me some go ahead and marry? Yes, and this might explain the 70% second-marriage divorce rate.)

Women tell me how frustrating the timing is because men grab a woman so fast, or more specifically, "the love of a woman," as Gray calls it, his need being what's important, not what woman it may be.

So what do we have here? Women, who tend, as Gray says, to wait too long coming upon men who are moving too fast ... there's an element of desperation there, and ... IT CERTAINLY EXPLAINS A LOT.

This is not a pretty picture, as other reviewers have mentioned.

Do women do this? Yes, but it isn't damaging because men are the recipients, and men typically can get sexually involved without getting emotionally involved. And ... women are more willing not to "use" men during this period, realizing they have nothing to offer (until healed). (As we learn in EQ research, women test higher in "social responsibility.") As Gray points out. What women and men both need to do is to pray for good timing (j.k., but hey, it IS IS "mars and venus" remember?)

Is this book helpful? Definitely. And about like a spoonful of medicine. It is excellent, truly excellent about explaining the dynamics and you may not like it, but you may be very, very glad you read it. Knowledge is power.

Is the book helpful for changing what may be inevitable? Only with awareness. What we can learn from this book is what might work better: (1) women who don't wait "too long" spending their time taking care of people, so when they do meet someone viable, they're on the desperate-edge; (2) men who can control their desperate loneliness after their woman leaves them (too bad they don't appreciate it until it's gone) and, as gentlemen, 'use' only women during this period who agree to it (every pot has a lid); (3) ergo, as much honesty on the part of both parties as is possible ... but the thing is, desperate people prevaricate; (4) women realizing there are few women who can engage in recreational sex and not get emotionally involved; (5) learning the signs of a man or woman who is not available (read the book); (5) knowing what you want and what it looks like (read the book, get coaching). (And it's great on how to heal and move on.)

So many great men and great women meet one another at the wrong time ... when the other one is just "starting over." (Hey, let 'em cut their teeth on someone else. If you think you're "different," read the book.)

Mars & Venus Starting Over - A Practical Guide for Finding Love Again After a Painful Breakup, Divorce, or the Loss of a Loved One

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Mars & Venus Starting Over - A Practical Guide for Finding Love Again After a Painful Breakup, Divorce, or the Loss of a Loved One
John Gray
Manufacturer: New York: HarperCollins, 1998
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Mars and Venus Starting Over a Practical Guide for Finding Love Again After a Painful Breakup, Divorce or the Loss of a Loved One

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Mars and Venus Starting Over a Practical Guide for Finding Love Again After a Painful Breakup, Divorce or the Loss of a Loved One

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Marte y Venus comienzan de nuevo / Mars and Venus Starting Over: Como Superar Una Perdida Amorosa / A Practical Guide For Finding Love Again after a Painful ... Breakup, Divorce, or the Loss of a Loved One

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Marte y Venus comienzan de nuevo / Mars and Venus Starting Over: Como Superar Una Perdida Amorosa / A Practical Guide For Finding Love Again after a Painful ... Breakup, Divorce, or the Loss of a Loved One
John Gray
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Mars and Venus Starting Over: A Practical Guide for Finding Love Again After a Painful Breakup, Divorce, or the Loss of a Loved One
John, Ph.D. Gray
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Mars and Venus Starting over: A Practical Guide for Finding Love Again After a Painful Breakup, Divorce, or the Loss of a Loved One
John Gray
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The Best Burger Book Ever

Great Father's Day Gift

Fun book -- great pictures

Beef, it's what's for dinner!

Not your average burger!!

Burgers: 50 Recipes Celebrating an American Classic
Rebecca Bent , and Tom Steele
Manufacturer: Clarkson Potter
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Release Date: 2004-05-11

Book Description

Burgers presents the blue jeans of American cuisine in all their glory, from simple and comforting to sophisticated and elegant. With fifty delicious, highly original recipes, beautiful photographs, and authoritative information on ingredients and techniques, this book will give you a different burger for every night of the week–in fact, for every night of the month. Rebecca Bent has scoured the country looking for the best that burgers have to offer, and here are not only her own superb creations, but also those from such renowned chefs as:

• Bobby Flay: Mesa Grill Burger with Double Cheddar Cheese
• Roy Yamaguchi: Japanese-Hawaiian-influenced Mama Burger with Chopped Mushrooms
• Jonathan Waxman: Bacon Burger with Onion Rings
• Suzanne Goin of Los Angeles’s Lucques: Grilled Lamb Burger with Cumin Yogurt
• David Waltuck of New York’s Chanterelle: Venison Burger au Poivre
• Norman Van Aken: Tuna Burger with Mojo

There are beef burgers and cheeseburgers, naturally, but also lamb, game, turkey, seafood, and vegetarian burgers. Plus there are recipes for the perfect sides and condiments: homemade ketchup and french fries, of course, but also the likes of Dean Fearing’s (of Dallas’s Mansion on Turtle Creek) Tobacco Onion Rings, Geoffrey Zakarian’s (of New York City’s Town) Gingered Cole Slaw, plus such classics as potato salad, homemade mayo, and mac and cheese.

Burgers addresses everything you need to know to make perfectly simple traditional burgers and their accompaniments, while also providing dozens of showstopping variations. So pull on a pair of jeans, and cook some burgers.

Customer Reviews:

The Best Burger Book Ever.......2004-06-03

From the beautiful photos to the delicious recipes, this book had it all! I especially enjoyed the mention of the burgers in Hawaii. This book is great for burger connoisseurs like myself and I would recommend it to burger lovers everywhere!

Great Father's Day Gift.......2004-05-19

Overall comment is it is really a nice book. The recipes are fairly simple and generally have common ingredients. A lot of cook books ask for some weird stuff that you have to drive across town just to get. I like how the author gave variations to some recipes. I also really like each comment beforehand. It gave a more personal touch on each recipe and something perhaps the reader could identify with. I have been to Turtle Creek Mansion in Dallas so that was nice to see plus the recipe from Hawaii.

Fun book -- great pictures.......2004-05-16

Heard about this book in last week's New York Sun. I've made three recipe in preparation for my memorial day party. All of them have been delicious.

Beef, it's what's for dinner!.......2004-05-15

Everything about this book is wonderful - from the layout and glossy photos to the incredible recipes. It's a burger-lovers dream. I bought a few extra copies to take as host/hostess gifts for backyard BBQ's this summer. It's a great addition to any cookbook collection.

Not your average burger!!.......2004-05-12

Not only do you get new beef burger recipes, but also step by step instructions to creating lamb, chicken, buffalo, turkey, seafood and tofu burgers (to name a few). There is a handy list of burger do's and don'ts. I love the burger and side dish recipes contributed by celebrity chefs with famous restaurants. Finally, the stuffed blue cheese burger with apple and bacon rocks!!!!

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