Deadly Valentine

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Not a bad book........2006-11-26

This book is set around Valentine's Day, and a big party that a neighbour of Annie and Max is holding. At the end of the party the hostess is found dead. There aren't many suspects for this murder in this exclusive gated community, but Annie and Max set out to find out who dunnit with the help of Max's spacey mother. I enjoyed this book a bit more than some of the previous ones since it didn't seem as silly and the murder and the clues were pretty good. But I can't tolerate Laurel much longer. She's too typecast for me, and that is why I gave this book a three instead of a four. Anyway, the war between the two cats, and Annie's paintings that are explained at the beginning of the book made this a fun book to read.

Enough already with the mystery allusions!.......2004-02-23

I'm in the minority here -- I hated this book. I never really warmed up to Annie and Max, perhaps because I hadn't read earlier books in the series (although I loved mother-in-law Laurel). But I just couldn't take all of the allusions to other mysteries -- sometimes several times in one paragraph. I only finished the book because I had it with me on a long airplane trip, and even at that I set it aside for a discarded Harlequin romance right in the middle of the mystery.

Valentine Day murder.......2002-06-18

Annie and Max Darling have just moved into their new home. They have a lot of interesting neighbors, especially Sydney Cahill who goes after every man she meets, including Max. Annie is not too interested in going to Sydney's Valentine party, but Max's mother comes to visit and decides that it would be great fun for the three of them to attend the party. When Sydney turns up murdered, there are no lack of suspects since she was involved with most of the neighborhood men and there are many jealous wives. Annie and Max check into their neighbor's backgrounds and discover even more motives. They are totally confused until Max's mother Laurel calls Annie's hand by inviting all of the neighbors to a meeting so that Annie can unveil the murderer's identity. Annie has no idea who committed the murder until she hears some of Laurel's conclusions during the meeting. Finally, Annie confronts the murderer and puts Laurel's life in danger as a consequence. This is another good cozy from the reliable Carolyn Hart.

Such Fun!.......2000-03-03

I'm kind of torn over which Annie & Max book I love the most -- Deadly Valentine or Southern Ghost. However, if you like light mysteries, you can't go wrong with a Hart book. Annie & Max are the most delightful detective spouses since Nick and Nora Charles. And I, like the reader from Illinois, like it when authors use the same characters from book to book -- The town of Broward's Rock and its inhabitants are utterly charming. And for goodness sake, take heed to the writers/books Hart makes reference to -- some of them are wonderful!

A new version of the cozy.......1999-08-19

This is a nice variation on the "locked room cozy" where several people, all having reason to want someone dead, are secluded in a room (an island subdivision in this case) and surprise, surprise, the hated person ends up dead. Some of the suspects are particularly nasty and you may want them all to be guilty so they'll all go to jail (but don't worry, this isn't Murder on the Orient Express.) A good time.

MY DEADLY VALENTINE (NANCY DREW FILES 92): MY DEADLY VALENTINE (Nancy Drew Files)

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a novel mystery

MY DEADLY VALENTINE (NANCY DREW FILES 92): MY DEADLY VALENTINE (Nancy Drew Files)
Carolyn Keene
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ASIN: 0671794841

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a novel mystery.......1998-12-14

nancy is headed to emerson college for a week of relaxlation during sweetheart week, an emerson tradition. Nancy is in for a surprise when rosie lopez, whose is the queen of the week, gets a nasty knock on the head, but theres more to follow. nancy has everything but a vacation.

7 Titles in the DEATH ON DEMAND Series: (1) Death on Demand; (2) Deadly Valentine; (3) Engaged to Die; (4) Honeymoon With Murder; (5) Mint Julep Murder; (6) Southern Ghost; (7) Murder Walks the Plank (Set of 7)

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7 Titles in the DEATH ON DEMAND Series: (1) Death on Demand; (2) Deadly Valentine; (3) Engaged to Die; (4) Honeymoon With Murder; (5) Mint Julep Murder; (6) Southern Ghost; (7) Murder Walks the Plank (Set of 7)
Carolyn G. Hart
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ASIN: B000WUM48O

As Deadly Does (A Valentine Easy Eye Book)

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As Deadly Does (A Valentine Easy Eye Book)
Jane Corby
Manufacturer: Valentine Books
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ASIN: B000PWGSZ4

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Deadly Valentine

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ASIN: B000GLKDFA

Deadly Valentine (Detective Annie Darling)

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Deadly Valentine (Detective Annie Darling)

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A Mother-in-law is no joke if she meddles in your marriage. Laurel Laurance doesn't see it that way: she's helping Annie, her son's wife. Annies lost her sense of humor about Laurel, but not her perspective. When police charge Laurel in a neighbor's murder, Annie knows they're wrong. Now she has to prove it - and prove once and for all that she doesn't need Laurel's help? "If Agatha Christie were writing today, her name would be Caroly Hart." (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)

Nancy Drew Files Case 92 My Deadly Valentine

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Nancy Drew Files Case 92 My Deadly Valentine
Carolyn Keene
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Deadly Valentine
Carolyn G. Hart
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My Deadly Valentine
Carolyn Keene
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MY DEADLY VALENTINE Case 92
Carolyn Keene
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Against a backdrop of war, a young man struggles to unravel his destiny in the Warhammer world.

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Call me what you want!.......2007-06-02

I know that the reviewers here gave this omnibus a poor rating, but I, on the other hand, enjoyed this book immensely. I am not going to say too much here! In any case, novels based around a series of games like Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 are supposed to support the promotion of the hobby. The current Black Library novels that most people read and like are typically Gaunt's Ghosts and the Gotrek and Felix adventures; however, these novels get caught up in their own seriousness. The Konrad saga is not in the least comparable to the great fantasy epics -- and it does not have to be! It is fun and does not take itself too seriously. The point is to just support the hobby in the most enjoyable way possible, and not try to teach existential philosophy and add unneccessary literary flourish like some Black Library authors attempt to do. Bye

Bleh.......2006-07-28

This omnibus is a collection of three Black Library novels (Konrad, Shadowbreed and Warblade) which follows the life of the eponymous protagonist. Our hero starts the story as a teenage servent of an innkeeper in a small village in the Empire. He has no family and no real memory of his past. He befriends the daughter of a local noble after he saves her life and she gives him a bow and arrows marked with a strange heraldric symbol. Konrad senses that the symbol is part of his destiny and for the remainder of the book tries to figure out why.

In the meantime, all sorts of bad stuff happens to Konrad- his village is destroyed by beastmen, his girlfriend disappears in the attack, he almost gets himself killed by more beastmen and later some goblins, he falls in with some Khorne worshipping marauders, gets stuck in evil Chaos armor, gets forcibly removed from said armor, crosses swords with some skaven, battles Slaaneshi cultists, fights more skaven again and saves the Empire in the process.

The problem is that in between all of the battling, the characters in the book just aren't very well developed. Konrad has this mysterious past that never really gets explained (I guess you need to save stuff for the next books in the series) and he has so many run-ins with different bad guys who are inter-related that even he thinks he's being manipulated by somebody for some reason. Because of this, you the reader feel like you are being led through the story on a rail. When you finally find out who is doing the manipulating and why, it turns out to be really anticlimatic and it isn't really resolved. After 600 odd pages you still don't find out much about Konrad's past either.

Some of Konrad's partners-in-crime, such as the warrior Wolf, the mage Litzenreich and a few dwarves are so underdeveloped that you never really understand why they continue to support our hero. Konrad's childhood sweetheart is so thinly developed in the front-end of the book that you wonder why he spends much of the final third of the book determined to find out what happened to her. Then when they do cross paths again, things are resolved so quickly and without emotion that it makes you scratch your head.

To sum up, Konrad is 600+ pages of combat stories with an enigmatic character who is on a quest that he doesn't understand and who hangs out with people that you never really get to know. By the time the third book in the collection draws to a close, Konrad is on his own, with most of his questions still unanswered and you the reader couldn't care less.

Three for the price of none.......2006-01-23

While browsing for a book to read on my off time at work I mistakenly purchased this book thinking that I was getting a deal in that there were three books already combined into one.
I play Games Workshop minature games and enjoy the rich world that these stories come from but Konrad is a collection to be avoided.
The storyline seems to skip with giant leaps of coincidence that the author offhandedly tries to patch into a weak "guided by sigmar" web of events excuse, Konrad just chops and chops everything in sight and has no control over his life.
The whole book is just annoyingly lacking of substance or description of characters or events.
grab your sword and just hack away and oh wow we saved to world on accident.
I have seen better stories from High school students

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Die Männer vom Meer. Wikinger- Saga.
Konrad Hansen
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Konrads Saga Keisarasonar (American University Studies Series 1 : Germanic Language and Literature, Vol 63)

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Konrads Saga Keisarasonar (American University Studies Series 1 : Germanic Language and Literature, Vol 63)

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The Sex Addiction Workbook: Proven Strategies to Help You Regain Control of Your Life (New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)
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Empirically grounded and very useful

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A Practical Guide for People with a Sexual Addiction

The Sex Addiction Workbook: Proven Strategies to Help You Regain Control of Your Life (New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)
Tamara Penix, Ph.D. Sbraga , and William T. O'Donohue
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Some people use sex to medicate their feelings and/or cope with stress much in the same way as others would use alcohol or drugs. Lack of sexual self-control can manfest in the form of excessive use of porn sites, phone sex, and strip bars; it can lead to multiple infidelities, risky sexual behavior, bankruptcy, or the loss of a job due to their out of control behaviors. Rooted in shame and low self-esteem, there is little satisfaction gained from the sexual activites and rarely an interest in intimacy or emotional connection. This book addresses readers with a lack of sexual self-control where their behavior is interfering with their relationhip, job, and reputation.

The authors guide the readers as they assess their level of sexual-self control problems, teaching relapse prevention methods and helping readers increase motivation and commitment to change. Readers then set goals and assess their choices. The second section of the book delves into the cognitive restructuring necessary to produce change, helping readers examine their behaviors, decision-making process, cognitive distortions (need for immediate gratification, deviant sexual fantasizing). In the third section, readers deal with their the impact of their emotions on their behaviors and lead them toward self-acceptance. Finally, readers learn to increase intimacy and live a more balanced life.

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therapist's helper.......2007-08-23

I, as a therapist who works with folks who have sexual addictions, have found this book to be a good resource to supplement the work we do together in sessions. It is well written and seems to address the issues in a gentle manner, allowing clients to work at a comfortable pace.
Lorraine LaBarre, LCSW
New London, CT

Very Helpful .......2007-01-10

As a pastoral counselor I found this book useful in getting in touch with core basics and how to methodically move through them. I have now used this book with 2 clients and have purchased the last one for a good friend who is struggling with his addictions to pornography. The authors show good insight into the realm of sex addiction and how to pull through it.

Empirically grounded and very useful.......2004-10-13

I believe this book represents the best kind of clinical psychology. It is well grounded in research and empirical knowledge, but is also written in such a way as to be useful for people who are not. It focuses not just on the dos and don'ts, but on the whys as well. I think it will be useful for therapists to use with their clients, as well as for people who don't have (or don't want) a therapist.

I am a professor of clinical psychology and I will use this when supervising students who are working with clients dealing with these sexual issues.

There is a need for this kind of text and I believe the authors have a great method for intervention.

Sound research and good practice.......2004-10-06

I am a professor of clinical psychology with over 150 publications primarily on some aspects of sexual offending and 15 years experience working with sexual offenders. I have also edited several books and authored two others on the explanation, assessment, and treatment of sexual offenders. In my view this is an outstanding publication which manages to combine excellent scholarship with sound practical advice for individuals with sexual disorders. It is written in a clear and straight forward manner and I think will engage offenders in the process of learning to manage their destructive actions and turning their lives around. It should prove useful as an adjunct resource for therapists and also provide individuals reluctant to seek therapy with some valuable strategies for controlling their sexually deviant behavior. This is an excellent addition to the treatment literature.

Tony Ward, PhD, DipClinPsyc

A Practical Guide for People with a Sexual Addiction.......2004-09-29

This book offers guidance for individuals who struggle with an addiction to sex. It is written in a practical, often entertaining, and always enlightening way. It can be used on its own or in conjunction with psychotherapy. I wish I had had this book in the past as an adjunct to conducting psychotherapy with my patients who have had such problems. I will be sure to use it with patients in the future.

Fashionable Food: Seven Decades of Food Fads
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Definitely one of my favorite books

Excellent Social History of American Recipes

Interesting but Inconsistent

A fun look at American food fads from the 20s to the 80s

Fashionable Food: Seven Decades of Food Fads
Sylvia Lovegren
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Though the Roaring Twenties call to mind images of flappers dancing the Charleston and gangsters dispensing moonshine in back rooms, Sylvia Lovegren here playfully reminds us what these characters ate for dinner: Banana and Popcorn Salad. Like fashions and fads, food—even bad food—has a history, and Lovegren's Fashionable Food is quite literally a cookbook of the American past.

Well researched and delightfully illustrated, this collection of faddish recipes from the 1920s to the 1990s is a decade-by-decade tour of a hungry American century. From the Three P's Salad—that's peas, pickles, and peanuts—of the post-World War I era to the Fruit Cocktail and Spam Buffet Party loaf—all the rage in the ultra-modern 1950s, when cooking from a can epitomized culinary sophistication—Fashionable Food details the origins of these curious delicacies. In two chapters devoted to "exotic foods of the East," for example, Lovegren explores the long American love affair with Chinese food and the social status conferred upon anyone chic enough to eat pu-pu platters from Polynesia. Throughout, Lovegren supplements recipes—some mouth-watering, some appalling—from classic cookbooks and family magazines, with humorous anecdotes that chronicle how society and kitchen technology influenced the way we lived and how we ate.

Equal parts American and culinary history, Fashionable Food examines our collective past from the kitchen counter. Even if it's been a while since you last had Tang Pie and your fondue set is collecting dust in the back of the cupboard, Fashionable Food will inspire, entertain, and inform.

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Definitely one of my favorite books.......2006-12-16

The reviewer (below) who faulted this book for its inconsistencies has a point. I've noticed the same flaws in passing, but, for me, the pleasures of this book easily outweigh them. I ran across it by chance, have owned it for years, and return to it again and again--sampling favorite bits or random bits as a "I'm too tired to start a new novel--let's just read something familiar" bedtime read. I've often wanted to write the author to tell her how much satisfaction her book has given me; only the hassles and uncertainty of trying to mail something via a publisher deterred me.

It offers so many fascinating details. Her account of the rise of the '70s salad bar, or the economical toast-based suppers of the '30s. Marshmallow madness in the 20s, the "lie" of American "Chinese" food, etc. I'm in no way a "foodie"--a creepy word that suggests a minor character on that old HR Pufinstuf show--but this book is, in many ways, also a valuable social and pop-cultural history. So glad to see it's been reprinted.

Excellent Social History of American Recipes.......2005-07-08

`Fashionable Food, Seven Decades of Food Fads' by culinary historian and food writer, Sylvia Lovegren is a great addition to the social history of American culinary folkways, especially with its concentration on actual, tested recipes from each of the seven subject decades from the 1920s to the 1980s. It is an interesting contrast in approach to `Something from the Oven' by Laura Shapiro that deals more with narrative and less with recipes. The ideal book would have been a combination of the two techniques.

The most important thing to remember is that Ms. Lovegren is talking about things that were `fashionable', not with the demographics of food habits. As Ms. Shapiro points out in her book, the advent of the convenience foods after World War II did not permeate American cooking. They, along with their most vocal proponent, Poppy Cannon, got a lot of attention, but were always viewed as shortcuts and not necessarily a tectonic shift in American cooking habits.

Reading a version of this book revised and republished in 2005 makes me wonder why the author did not update the material in this book to cover the last 15 years, where the playing out of so many trends, and the origin of so many new ones would have added so much interesting material to the book. The advent of the Food Network alone may have warranted a chapter. In all, the coverage of food journalism, especially TV food journalism is just a little thin. Dione Lucas and Jeff Smith (the Frugal Gourmet) are mentioned briefly and Julia Child is given her due for her truly incredible influence on American eating, but there is no mention of, for example Martin Yan, the Galloping Gourmet, and local TV cooking shows. While I take the book at its word since my interest in culinary writing is no more than three years old, I get the sense that virtually everything the author says about the 1980s is still true today. There is little that was popular in 1985 that is not a hot item on today's cooking shows or in today's cookbooks.

On the other hand, I applaud the attention the author gives to M.F.K. Fisher's statements and writings. Ms. Fisher is too easily forgotten in the towering shadow of Julia Child and the leading current distaff celebs, Alice Waters and Deborah Madison. That doesn't mean Ms. Waters and Ms. Madison are not given their due. I especially like the fact that Ms. Lovegren has not taken sides on the issue of who originated the `California Cuisine'. The primary contenders are Alice Waters and Jeremiah Tower, Chez Panisse and Waters' first major chef who helped set the course for Chez Panisse along the lines laid out by Richard Olney's writings on `simple French food'.

Like all good social and cultural history, the book does its share of explaining interesting facts, such as why the Chinese ended up in so many tailor, laundry, and cooking jobs. It was, according to Ms. Lovegren, simply because these were women's occupations and therefore virtually the only ones open to former Chinese railroad workers.

In addition to the seven main chapters on the decades, there are two interludes, one covering early Chinese food and the other covering other oriental foods in America. Here again, we seem to miss any coverage of the increase of popularity in Thai and Vietnamese food. The focus on the `other oriental foods' highlights `Trader Vic' restaurants and their founder, Victor Bergeron.

The thing I like the best about this book is that it does not equate `fads' with `poor quality'. In fact, several `fads' later in the author's decades are the `foodie' movement toward more interesting food, the health food agenda which improved the quality of its regimen over the decades, and the still growing interest in locally grown foods. This is why it is so important for the book to include good working recipes.

The absence of a lot of analysis ties into another weakness with this book in that so many food trends did not recognize decade boundaries. Conventional wisdom, for example, commonly defines `the sixties' as being roughly between the assassination of President Kennedy / Arrival of the Beatles and the resignation of President Nixon closing out the Watergate scandal. I think it would have been more interesting and more accurate to follow individual food trends through the years rather than to chop up the trends into arbitrary decades.

I am struck, for example, by the fact that three major food trends important today had their origins in the sixties. The first and most obvious is the foodie movement with Julia Child as its fountainhead. The second is the health foods / organic food movement spearheaded by Adele Davis' writings plus the great influence of Rachel Carson's `Silent Spring'. I will go out on a limb here and say that the third major movement is in the influence of regional / cultural cuisines growing out of the `soul food' movement. As the author so accurately points out, people have been eating collards, okra, and black eyed peas for centuries, but it took the civil rights / black pride movement to make an icon of this aspect of black culture.

As befitting a book published by the University of Chicago press, this book has good scholarly accouterments, including careful references to the sources of all recipes plus proper cautions on recipes which were not tested by the author or her colleagues. I must give the copy editor a slap on the hand for missing the misspelling Jeremiah Tower's first name in the Preface, especially since Monsieur Tower's name is properly spelled later in the book.

This is an excellent, highly enjoyable book to read and an interesting source of `historical' recipes. It would be great to see it brought up to date.

Interesting but Inconsistent.......2004-07-22

?Fashionable Foods" comprises a recounting of food fads from the 1920's to the 1990's. Author Sylvia Lovegren discusses the trends and includes recipes from each decade. I rather enjoyed this book; however, I find myself unable to award more than 3 stars. The idea is intriguing as is much of the content, but the book is rather inconsistently developed.

The overarching theme of the book is (seemingly) "how America cooks." However, the author swerves from highlighting absurd recipes (Banana and Popcorn Salad in the 1920's) to typical at-home foods (meatloaf in the 1980's) to haute cuisine served in fine restaurants (Ciopino in the 1970's). Covering a wide array of food trends is fine, but it feels jumbled. The formatting adds to the confusion: finding the breaks between recipes and text is very difficult ? everything simply runs together.

The inclusion of recipes is also somewhat haphazard and seems dictated primarily by the author?s ability to easily procure reprint permission. Thus, some of the food trends that are discussed do not include representative recipes. By and large, recipes are presented as they would have been made during the time period, with minor adjustments for out-of-date products. Nevertheless, some of the recipes are randomly updated to decrease fat and sugar content for a ?90?s taste.? That would seem to defeat the purpose of the book ? i.e., to serve as a historical document of sorts. Also, some of the recipes haven't been tested by the author ? so she recommends that they not be used.

Overall, the book is rather confusing because of these inconsistencies. I really wanted to like ?Fashionable Foods? more than I do. Recommended with reservations for readers looking for an entertaining read about foods, not a cookbook.

A fun look at American food fads from the 20s to the 80s.......1998-04-06

"Fashionable Food" serves up the most entertaining overview of mealtime in America since Jane and Michael Stern's "Square Meals." From tasty to trendy to just plain oddball, if it was embraced by the guardians of hearth and home, you'll find it here.

Relive the era of Prohibition with "Flapper Pudding", explore new frontiers of soup with a 1930s "Mystery Cake" courtesy of Campbell's, endure the restrictions of the 40s war years - and celebrate the glory of the "goodbye to rations" post-war era. Go swank with a 50s Cocktail Party or sophisticated as you explore 60s gourmet cuisine. Get back to earth with 70s health food and expand your palate with the regional foods of the 80s.

Sprinkled throughout are tantalizing tidbits from re-visiting old friends like The Mystery Chef and Sheila Hibben to rediscovering the wonders of Chinese and Hawaiian cuisine when they were new and exotic. From crockpots to fondues; from Betty Crocker to Alice Waters; from Trader Vic's to Elmer Fudpucker's; if it's part of our gastronomical history, it's part of this entertaining hodgepodge of American food.

Fashionable Food: Seven Decades of Food Fads
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Fashionable Food: Seven Decades of Food Fads
Sylvia Lovegren
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