The Werewolf's Touch (The Voodoo Moon Trilogy, Book 2)

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The Werewolf's Touch (The Voodoo Moon Trilogy, Book 2)
Cheri Scotch
Manufacturer: I Books
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Andrew Marley knew the dark secret that tormented his family for generations. It had cursed his grandfather, killed his father, and drove his mother to madness. Now, newly sworn into priesthood, Andrew must face the evil within-a legend born of the Louisiana bayou, and now time is running out before his true nature is unveiled by the light of the moon.

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Easy to Read and simple story.......2001-04-11

I wasn't actually sure if I should give this 3 or 4 stars.. This is acutally the second book of what appears to be a loosely linked trilogy. I haven't read the first book in the set "werewolf's kiss".

I found that as a stand alone novel this was well written. The author has a clear writing style and sticks to reasonalbly simple story lines. I also found it was quite lyrical and had a bitter-sweet ending.

It's the story of the "cursed" marley werewolves. The eldest child of each generation is cursed so that on the "night of their greatest triumph" they will turn into a werewolf and start killing. Andrew Marley is the 3rd generation for this to happen to and on the night of his ordination as a preist all goes to hell.

The cover somewhat does this book a dis-service. It looks like a dyed-in-the-wool romance, but the story is in many ways more of a tragedy than a romance and I was grateful I found I was actually reading a story and not a torrid romance that simply revolves around love saving the day and sex.

If you want a "light" werewolf novel that is quick and easy to read this is reccomended.

simply brilliant.......2000-05-25

i love the way cheri scotch describes her charactors, this book { the second in a triolgy} is simply brilliant the triolgy gets better as it goes along.

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A FANTASTIC Book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Werewolf Love

The Werewolf's Kiss
Cheri Scotch
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ASIN: 0743474554

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The Werewolf's Kiss is the first book in "The Werewolf Trilogy," a ground-breaking trilogy that follows the history of a clan of werewolves centered around New Orleans. This is the story of Sylvie Marley, a rare creature drawn to the Moon and the night with the urge to run wild in the bayous. She is also in love with the young, handsome werewolf Lucien Drago, son of the Duchess de Marais. She too could be a werewolf if she chose, called as she is by the spirit of the Moon and the family's werewolf curse. Although her father, Andrew Marley managed to lift the curse, Sylvie still has the choice between the life she craves as a werewolf and the life of a normal young woman. However, that choice may be taken from her by a madman seeking power as the new king of the Voodoos. To prove himself, he intends to force Sylvie to become a werewolf with his magic, thereby sealing her fate, and her life, unless he is stopped.

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A FANTASTIC Book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2005-02-15

The Werewolf's Kiss gives the reader a look at the Louisiana werewolves. It draws the reader into the close-knit community of the werewolves. The characters backgrouds are explained with great clarity! You'll have no trouble finding a character to root for! The reader will feel like they are one of the werewolf community in this book. The character's worries and fears become the reader's worries and fears. The last few chapters are sure to have the reader on the edge of their seat!! This is a must-read for any fan of werewolf literature!!!!!

Running Wild.......2004-03-04

I really enjoyed this book. It is a keeper that you can reread and enjoy over and over again. The story is great and the characters are really believable. If you enjoy werewolf books or other books along this line you will enjoy reading this book.

Interesting.......2003-09-26

I liked this book because it discusses werewolves like Anne Rice does vampires. Also, the stories of the individual characters were very well written and engrossing. However, the storyline that held the book together was rather week.

Its worth a read, but it won't wow you.

A Unique Tale.......2003-07-24

I am not a regular reader of Lycanthropy (Werewolf) books however I decided to give this one a try. I found out that I have been missing out. This book is an excellent read. This book is just one of three. I look forward to the other two. (2nd coming out in October 2003 & the 3rd coming out in January 2004) Buy this book & you will not be disappointed.

Sincerely,

Jenjaylynn

Werewolf Love.......2002-03-17

I read all three Scotch werewolf books. They are certainly different. I love werewolf books because they are all so different. Every author has a completely different take.

What is so interesting about Cheri Scotch's series is that she manages to combine so many different elements in relatively short books. These books have it all. We have mystery/detective work; historical background and sweeping drama; we have several love stories; supernatural, including voodoo and of course, werewolf folklore; interesting backdrops of New Orleans, as well as other interesting places. We also have interesting personal relationships: parent/child; lovers; revenge; friendship....But most of all, good triumphing over evil. Oh, did I mention the religious storyline? You name an element, it is here.

These books manage to combing countless characters, most of which are included in all three books; and countless storylines without being unhinged or confusing. Holt manages to go back and forth in time periods with different characters and pull it all together in the end.

I liked Cheri Holt's take on how one becomes a werewolf. Her ideas were very different than I have read. I also liked the way she dragged voodoo in and made it part of the wolf-lore. The details of voodoo were as interesting as the wolf details.

I am not going to go into the plotlines of these books, because frankly, I don't think I could. They are all just too complex to describe...and believe me I tried. I was trying to sum it up for a friend and failed miserably.

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Robin Jenkin's novel, A Very Scotch Affair, is set in Glasgow and tells the tale of Mungo Niven, a man who possesses a fiercely Scotch conscience and who feels trapped in a drab and unfulfilling existence. Mungo's wife is the extroverted and excessively cheerful Bess, too busy cracking jokes or playing whist to give her husband's misery any sympathy and dismissing his vague intellectual, imaginative and amorous ambitions as pointless dreams. Mungo finds himself bound to her not so much by love and loyalty as by the many trivial commonplaces of married life. When Bess is stricken by cancer, Mungo sees an opportunity for him to escape both his loveless marriage and his tyrannical conscience.

As Mungo seizes this chance, his actions have far-reaching effects which he had never imagined; his eldest son follows his father's example into betrayal and abandons his pregnant girlfriend; his eighteen-year-old daughter becomes emotionally numb to the situation; his younger son, just twelve-years-old, develops an intense hatred towards his father and turns his back on the family, moving away to live with relatives. Mungo is left looking at the pieces of his broken family.

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The stories in James Kelman's collection, Busted Scotch are as bleak as a Scottish winter. Kelman's characters are working class people--mostly men, mostly inarticulate--whose dead-end existences are relentlessly dark. Fortunately, the reader, if not the characters, is rescued from this lunarscape vision by bracing doses of Kelman's black humor and impressive prose. Sometimes, as in "Nice to be Nice," the prose is rendered in a thick Scots dialect that might confound readers outside of the U.K. Most stories, however, are more accessible linguistically, though liberally laced with obscenities. Kelman does not concentrate his energies on character development or even on action; nothing much happens in many of these stories, yet everything changes. In "Pictures," a man notices a woman in a movie theater, buys her coffee, begins to wonder if she's a prostitute. These tiny, uneventful occurrences lead to the revelation of an unresolved trauma in the man's own life. In "A Nightboilerman's Notes," the narrator achieves a strange kind of transcendence simply contemplating the darkness in the bowels of a factory.

Kelman, who won Britain's prestigious Booker Prize in 1994 for his novel How Late It Was, How Late, has selected the 35 stories in Busted Scotch from more than 20 years' work. Many of these stories make their American debut in this collection.

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A literary event: the selected stories of the acclaimed author of the Booker Prize-winning How late it was, how late, most of them being published in this country for the first time. This collection of 35 short stories has been selected and arranged by James Kelman himself from over two decades of his work. It reveals the author as a tough-minded master of the short form, which he infuses with his unique brand of bleak comedy and his absolute belief that language, not literature, makes the culture. The stories in Busted Scotch are set in the working-class milieu of Scotland and Englandthe pubs, betting shops, tenements, bedrooms, snooker parlors, and decaying industrial workplaces. They range widely in length from a few paragraphs to twenty-plus pages, in style from the deceptively casual to the highly farcical, and in subject matter from casual everyday tragedies to the heartbreaking vicissitudes of romance and language. Each of these stories manages the near-miracle of giving eloquent voice to the previously inarticulate. Some of them will strike readers as masterpiecesall of them created out of low life, high art.

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Poverty, cigarettes, booze and welfare.......2000-12-15

Flashes of genius but not always readable. Short stories that sometimes lapse into incoherent surrealistic stream of consciousness. The understandability is often further reduced by phonetic spelling of dialect. The phonetic spelling assumes that the reader normally speaks Southern British English (for example "game" spelled "gemm.") At times it is absolutely brilliant with dark humor describing the way the shiftless (often homeless and destitute) make ends meet by welfare and panhandling. Reminded me often of James Joyce, which is not altogether a compliment because I've never managed to finish Ulysses.

On Reflection: Good.......2000-01-13

A wide range of stories of life in the slow lane of post industrial Scotland. I picked up this book in a store, tried to read it and pretty much immediately put it down for six months. I was put off by the written Scots dialect (in some (not all) of the stories), the seeming inconsequentality of some of the storylines, and the surreal nature of some others.

I'm glad I picked it up again. I tried reading "Nice to be Nice" (written in Scots) oot loud to mysel' an' it made a lot more sense, and became an affecting story of a man working (in a small way) against bureaucracy. Reading other stories it became clear that they ARE about everyday life, but they add a poetic quality to it, and really get you inside the head of the characters.

I would recommend this book.

Well Written, but Unexciting.......1999-08-26

This is about as good a way to get to know Kelman's writings as any, since he's selected the 35 short stories in this volume from four or five of his previous collections. They range from a half-page to thirty pages or so, and tend to be rather unexciting interior monologues. There are a few nice stories, my favorite being "Remember Young Cecil," about a former pool champion. Nothing much to inspire one to seek out his other work, though.

Dark, bleak, brilliant stories about post-industrial angst........1997-08-21

Kelman's collection of short stories is a bleak affair, a series of grim portraits of disaffected Scots who bumble through their Kafkaesque lives. Stories begin in the middle of a narrative, and end before any concrete resolution. Enigmatic dwarves invade a migrant workers' camp and pub, with bizarre effects. Absurdity coexists with anxiety, dispair with some aching longing for better times, when the true reason things are so bad remains firmly out of grasp. Out of this darkness emerge Kelman's characters, pitiful souls who aimlessly seek some meaning and reason. Of course, it eludes them completely. Yet, like a 100 to 1 shot against picking a winning horse, Kelman's characters continue to struggle against poverty, injustice, and hard times. In spite of this, all is not completely grim, for rays of humor pierce through the darkness, and mirth creeps into the angst, ever so subtly. In the careful portrayal of their struggles, Kelman has crafted brilliant fiction. Read one story and wince, catch your breath, gain some enlightenment, then plunge on to the next one. Each and every tale is well worth your time.

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A Fifth of Scotch
David DeNoon
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Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago (Everyman Classics)

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A Lady from a Family with a Good Name Goes into Trade!

Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago (Everyman Classics)
Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant
Manufacturer: J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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ASIN: 0460011456

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This review contains MAJOR SPOILERS.......2006-09-16

Though written in the later Victorian era, Kirsteen is chiefly set in Scotland during the Regency period. Kirsteen Douglas is the daughter of an impotent, invalid mother, and a brutish, tyrannical father who considers females worthless. After secretly pledging her love to Ronald Drummond just before he leaves for India, Kirsteen receives an offer of marriage from a wealthy suitor nearly three times her age. Pressured by everyone in the family to accept him, but determined to remain true to Drummond, she runs away to London. There, to the shame of her haughty family, she enters on a career as a fashionable dressmaker. In this capacity, she achieves great success and considerable wealth, and eventually becomes "the standby of the family."
Kirsteen is well-written, though occasionally drifting into melodrama. Some readers also may find the Scotch dialect hard to deal with, as I did. The title character is complexly drawn, with both likable and unlikable qualities. Like much of Jane Austen's work, Kirsteen concerns the lives and loves of young women of superior family with no money. Unlike Austen's novels, there is little humour, and hardly any romance - Kirsteen's relationship with Drummond is already established before the story opens, and he appears only briefly. And unlike Elizabeth Bennet or Elinor Dashwood, Oliphant's protagonist - a strong early feminist heroine - does not live happily ever after with the man she loves. Several years after his departure, she learns that Drummond has been killed in combat. She never marries, but cherishes the memory of his love, and finds fulfillment in her work, in hospitality and charity, and in her affection for her "hordes of nephews and nieces."

A Lady from a Family with a Good Name Goes into Trade!.......2004-02-06

Having read some seventy novels written circa 1790-1830 for my dissertation, I can assert that Kirsteen is in many ways a completely unrealistic depiction of the regency (as are many contemporary regency romances) . What is wrong is not the details of the clothes, food, travel, buildings, or wars, but the heroine's ideological mindset. This is not Ibsen's new woman, but maybe her shy sister, a Victorian feminist, living mysteriously in the world of the 1820s. The novel exposes the horrible cost of Imperial greed: the psychological and moral damage of the ex-slave owner Douglas is a minor, but very disturbing part of the novel. The impoverished Scottish countryside, the need to emigrate and exploit other races to gain wealth (India, Australia, and of course the West Indies), and the high social cost of shipping a huge portion of the male population to other parts of the globe are all minor themes as well. But the bulk of the novel is on the role of poor women of the gentry and their plight. The novel contrasts four very different sisters and their different solutions to the problem caused by their social situation. Oliphant shows how the pressure to marry a man of the correct class, seen as the only moral and socially acceptable choice, is often really a bad choice. Her heroine makes unconventional choices, such as to go into trade, that challenge the notion of what a "good" woman can do. This is a rather quick, fun read, but a bit too much of a fairy tale at spots. If you really want some insight into a dressmaker's or shopgirl's life in the regency, you need to go to Francis Burney's The Wanderer. For country life in the regency in Scotland, try Brunton's Discipline or Susan Ferrier's Marriage.

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Enjoy it for its sheer beauty or use it for inspiration while creating your own small landscape garden.

Japanese gardening is the art of arranging plants, rocks, lanterns, and basins in an open or, as here, an enclosed space. According to the aesthetic principles long prevailing in Kyoto, the ancient capital of Japan, even two rocks arranged in a tiny, enclosed space can be considered a garden. This
type of garden is called a tsuboniwa, and Kyoto has long being considered its birthplace and home. So it is not surprising that photographer Katsuhiko Mizuno, wishing to capture the best of such small gardens, should turn to Kyoto and its palaces, temples, shrines, and town houses.

The highlight of the book is the 100 photographs of these tsuboniwa-snow overlying sand patterns; coloring maple leaves; flowering cherry trees; lanterns, basins, fences; gardens featuring wisteria, azalea, hydrangea, Indian lilac, camellia, and daphne. Each photo is accompanied by an insightful
caption pointing out the outstanding characteristics of the garden in question.

An appendix gives Mizuno's instructions for creating a tsuboniwa, based on his personal experience. His account of the underlying concepts, design, choice of plants, and practical procedures will prove a invaluable reference for all garden creators, from amateur to professional.

Customer Reviews:

Nice pictures.......2006-06-29

This book is not only a great picture book, but it also provides wonderful descriptions of the Japanese gardens featured - succinct and informative. If you like landscaping with the Japanese feel, you'll enjoy this book.

faulty product.......2006-02-24

The book is excellent but the dust cover was torn obviously before despatch as the packaging was good.
The disappointment was that there was no method of complaint other than returning the product. From Australia to USA not practible.

Beyond the basics, Japanese Garden Book.......2006-01-19

I've been through a lot of Japanese gardening books, and many of been a little repetitive, covering the basic design elements and what not. Mizuno has put together a great "Intermediate" read once you've had enough of the basics. The pictures are some of the best available of authentic Japanese gardens, and the captions are short and to the point but with just enough plant identifications to be useful to someone in their planning stage.

Perhaps the best feature of this book is the introductory discussion on the "Omoteya style" town home (traditional Japanese merchant class town home). The text suggest there is a conservation movement to this vanishing style of Japanese home that mirrors the affection American's are beginning to culture towards the Bungalow. As the Omoteya styled homes share similar dimensions with the American city lot (diagrams are provided with the text), this book is a fabulous resource to urban dwellers looking to incorporate the Japanese garden concept to their grassy postage stamp.

A book to inspire you.......2003-10-31

Beautiful pictures and good text. It doesn't contain "how to do" tips but there is a chapter on how the author build one tsuboniwa in a Kyoto house.

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Japanese Courtyard Gardens
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I needed a "Little" help.......2001-07-11

I work in 1 inch scale with miniatures and want to start a Japanese Garden Roombox. I found some wonderful details in this lovely book and can hardly wait to reproduce them. In fact, I found exactly what I was looking for. My "Japanese Gardener" and my "Geisha" are waiting patiently for their habitats to be created. These are the figures I found that gave me the idea to do a garden and a tea room. It will be a fine winter's project.

one of the best.......2001-04-27

This book is by far one the best collections in my library. The pictures alone are worth the money. I can't tell you how much inspiration I extracted for future projects. A definite buy for any gardener.

One of the best purchase I've ever made!.......1999-05-29

Very beautiful photos. Nicely printed. Each photos has detailed description. Good for someone who loves Japaense culture, or who just loves gardens. I got this for a gift, but I will have to get some more for other friends, and for me!

Fantastic photographs.......1997-04-09

Inspiring book. Both traditional and contemporary courtyards are covered

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This volume traces the history of Zoroastrianism at times and places where its existence has previously been largely ignored, or treated only episodically. Literary, archaeological and numismatic evidence has been drawn on (some of it only recently brought to light), and local developments are distinguished. In Iran itself some 200 years of Macedonian rule had little effect on the national religion. To the east, Zoroastrianism survived in the Greco-Bactrian kingdoms and under Mauryan suzereinty, where it came into contact with Buddhism. In Eastern Mediterranean lands it was maintained by Iranian expatriates well down into Roman imperial times. They adopted Greek for their written tongue, and Zoroastrian doctrines thus became known in the Greco-Roman world. Study is made accordingly of Zoroastrian contributions to Hellenistic thought, and to Judaism, Christianity and Mithraism; and an excursus provides a thorough reassessment of the Zoroastrian pseudepigrapha.

A History of Zoroastrianism: Zoroastrianism Under Macedonian and Roman Rule (Handbuch Der Orientalistik Erste Abteilung Der Nahe Und Der Mittlere Os)

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A History of Zoroastrianism: Zoroastrianism Under Macedonian and Roman Rule (Handbuch Der Orientalistik Erste Abteilung Der Nahe Und Der Mittlere Os)
Mary Boyce
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