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Devil's Feather Minette Walters
Connie Burns is a Reuters
correspondent who covers the news in war-torn areas. She's seen some
of the most horrific things people can do to each other. While she's
in Sierra Leone, she learns of the brutal murders of five women. She
begins to suspect that the soldiers who were tortured into
confessing weren't actually guilty, but that instead the murders
were committed by a shady, dangerous Brit, John Harwood, who seems
to keep popping up in the places she's been posted to...
Between You and Me By Mike Wallace Good
Lord, the man is 87 years old! And still going strong! For veteran TV
journalist Mike Wallace, one advantage of old age is that he who lives
longest gets to write the last word. And in this, his second memoir,
Wallace does precisely that. The book is promoted as a collection of
his most memorable interviews, beginning with those heady days in the
1950s when he arrived on the scene...
 The
Year of Magical Thinking By Joan Didion
One evening before dinner in December 2003, Joan Didion served her
husband, the writer John Gregory Dunne, a second tumbler of scotch as
he sat in an armchair by the fireplace. She returned to mixing a
salad. When she looked over at him again, he was motionless, his left
hand raised. At first she thought he was making a bad joke, then she
realized something was wrong. Dunne had had a heart attack and died.
In an understated, considered tone...
 Christ
the Lord: Out of Egypt Anne Rice She built
her reputation writing books about vampires and witches, exploring her
own faith as her characters wrestled with timeless themes of good and
evil. Now Anne Rice has taken on the story of Christ himself. Christ
the Lord: Out of Egypt is a novel written as a first-person account by
Jesus of his very early years. In an afterword Rice details her
research -- the years she spent studying Christ and his times, delving
deeply into academic treatises. ..
 The
Girls Lori Lansens Forr a
writer, there is perhaps no harder act to follow than a successful
first novel. Rush Home Road, Lori Lansens' debut, garnered rave
reviews and was a national bestseller. Happily, her second novel ,The
Girls, also has elements that will please critics and readers alike.
The Girls, Rose and Ruby Darlen, are on their way to becoming the
world's oldest surviving craniopagus twins -- they are attached at the
head -- if they live to their 30th birthday...
 Immortal
by Brian Freeman
Brian Freeman does some interesting things in
his first novel: he sets up an intelligent, platonic dynamic between
his lead male cop, Jonathan Stride, and Stride's partner, Maggie Bei;
and, unusual for a detective novel, he allows the story to play out
over the course of years. The case that introduces us to Stride, the
disappearance of a teenage girl named Rachel, occurs more than a year
after the disappearance of another teenager, Kerry McGrath...
 SCHOOL
DAYS: Robert B. Parker Robert
Parker's novels featuring a Boston private detective named Spenser got
off to a slam-bang start in the 1970s. But since then, the series has
grown in popularity but deteriorated in quality, the plots becoming as
thin as negligees and the wisecracking detective turning into a parody
of himself...
 CINNAMON
KISS: Walter Mosley Easy
Rawlins is legit at last: The city of Los Angeles has granted him a
private detective's licence. But he's still a black man trying to make
his way in an indifferent, and often hostile, white America...
 THE
SECRET MULRONEY TAPES: Peter C. Newman Thanks
to the headlines splashed across the front pages this week by the
bombshell launch of The Secret Mulroney Tapes, we now know a great
deal of what Brian Mulroney was thinking while he was prime minister,
and a lot of it isn't pretty. But a more careful reading of the
explosive, profane book reveals it as more than a hatchet job. ..
 FAN-TAN:
Marlon Brando and Donald Cammell The
story of the making of this novel is as interesting as the book itself
-- the tale of a Scottish-American sea captain who signs on with some
Chinese pirates in the South Pacific during the 1920s. The late Marlon
Brando struck up a friendship with Donald Cammell during the 1960s
when the actor was in France shooting The Young Lions. The two
eccentrics had many character similarities and decided to collaborate
on this ultimately unfinished project. An editor and film historian
stepped in and finished the job...
"Learning From the Tanya":
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, prominent authority on Jewish mysticism, offers
authentic look at classic work of Kabbalah
By Amara Levine-Reich
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from L to R: 1. Rabbi Adin Even Israel
Steinsaltz is a recipient of Israel's highest civilian honor, the
Israel Prize. "If the Bible is the cornerstone of Judaism, then the
Talmud is the central pillar, soaring up from the foundations and
supporting the entire spiritual and intellectual edifice. In many ways
the Talmud is the most important book in Jewish culture, the backbone
of creativity and of national life." 2. Cover of the book "LEARNING
FROM THE TANYA".
Amid a frenzy of New
Age and pop-culture spirituality symbolized by red strings and bottled
water with magical healing powers, renowned scholar, Rabbi Adin
Steinsaltz offers an authentic look at the ancient wisdom of the
Kabbalah in his latest book, LEARNING FROM THE TANYA: Volume Two in
the Definitive Commentary on the Moral and Mystical Teachings of a
Classic Work of Kabbalah (Jossey-Bass: A Wiley Imprint, August 2005,
$24.95 cloth, 384 pages, ISBN 0-7879-7892-2). Rabbi Steinsaltz is the
author of numerous books on mysticism and Kabbalah, including the
critically acclaimed Opening the Tanya, the first volume in his series
of companion guides to the Tanya, and the modern classic The Thirteen
Petalled Rose...
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MAIMONIDES BY DR. ILIL ARBEL
"One
of the 10 best books of the year." World Jewish News Agency.
"Comprehensive, authoritative, fun and most needed. A great
addition to the world Judaica history and literature.". MDL,
International Herald Daily News
- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: Crossroad 8th Avenue (September 25, 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN: 0824523598
- Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.6 x 0.8 inches
- Price: 19.95
The book is availabe at: All Barnes and Noble and Borders
bookstores and many local stores. Directly from the publisher
Amazon.com, Borders.com and Barnes&Noble.com
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