Into the Cold Fire (Daughters of the Moon #2)

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Into Confusion and Oblivion.......2007-04-08

I don't know how Lynne Ewing came up with this story. I was looking forward to reading about Serena because she seemed to be one of the more interesting characters and was I sorely disappointed. I don't understand how you can have a romance in a book and not really give the reader anything to go on. If Serena can't remember her memories, then how are we supposed to get a feel for a connection between her and Stanton? They had absolutely no chemistry to me. Stanton and Vanessa seemed to have more chemistry to me (later I found out Lynne Ewing was originally going to hook those two up). Too bad Lynne didn't hook Michael up with someone else later in the series. Personally, I think Vanessa and Stanton would have made a better couple. I understand others might have a different opinion, but that's just how I feel about it.

I give it 2.5 stars for at least being well-written, if not the most interesting or the best of the series. So far, it's my least favorite.

Into the Cold Fire Review By: Diana.......2006-10-18

This book is about a girl who might be endangered by a groupd of people who is after her. These group of people are bad people who try to bring good people to the bad side. This book is a magical book with girls who have powers and they are trying to fight the bad people away. I liked this book because each character has a different personality and different ways to handle things in situations dealt together.

A Review of Into the Cold Fire........2006-10-17

I thought this book was good. It had a lot of action in it. I also liked it because it had magical powers that noone in real life could have. This book is great for teens who like a little bit of romance, drama, and action.

Daughters of the moon...the story continues..........2006-02-19

NOTE: PLEASE READ THE FIRST BOOK BEFORE YOU READ THIS BOOK. THE STORY WILL BE RUINED IF YOU DO NOT READ THE OTHER TWO BOOKS FIRST. THIS STORY IS HARD TO FOLLOW IF YOU DO NOT EVERYTHING ABOUT THE SERIES AND ALL THE REALATIONSHIPS. THIS BOOK IS POORLY WRITTEN AND HARD TO FOLLOW IF YOU DON'T READ THE FIRST BOOK.

Serena is a goddess, a daughter of the moon. Sent by Selene to protect the human beings from an ancient evil called the Atrox. Jimena, Serena, Vanessa, and Catty are all daughters of the moon. Each of them has a unique gift. Vanessa can become invisible, Catty can travel in time, Serena reads minds, and Jimena sees into the future. Lynne Ewing has designed all of the books to show us everyone's point of view at different times. This book is based on Serena.

The story beginns with Serena at the beach with her brother Collin. Collin is a surfer. Serena gets a little bored watching him surf so she walks down the beach until she stumbles into a party. A girl dressed in a dress throws herself into a fire. Everyone at the party cheers Lecta. Serena at first thinks the girl's name is Lecta. Serena freaks about because a girl threw herself into the fire but then sees that the fire flames are blue. Stanton suddenly calls out to Serena, then all of the sudden she wakes up. Serena is covered with cuts thinking she fell into the ocean. Her brother come's and finds her and asks her what happened, but she can't remember.

Morgan gets a crush on Collin, Serena's brother. Serena can't stand Morgan and doesn't think that Collin and her would be good together. Then Çollin tells her one day that Morgan thinks Serena needs a boyfriend. Serena is very angry and can't help but wonder if Collin agrees with Morgan. To add to all of the mess, Jimena and Collin start fighting. Serena isn't sure she can handle the preasure. To top it off Serena's crushing on a new kid at school.

Then Jimena tells Serena a vision she had. Serena gets very upset because she doesn't want to destroy the daughters of the moon. But Jimena's vision have always come true. A few days later Stanton come's and tells her that she needs to be careful about the new kid at school. He also tells Serena that he erased her memories on the beach. Serena is very shocked by this. Then Stanton tells her that Stanton and her were in a relationship. A few nights later Serena reads Collins mind about Jimena. Then once the secret of the new kid is revealed the key gets thrown into the cold fire. This book tests the faith between all of the girls, and there values.

Daughters of the Moon: Anairis Review.......2005-10-29

This is a story everybody should read including teenagers like us.We could relate some things from ourlife.This book is about a girl finding out what she was ment for.She wouldn't let anything about having a boyfriend keep her down.This story was romantic,action,and true friendship.Serena must know why the Antrox are after her and Jemina has a premonition that Serena is going to betray them.Then Venessa comes again and turns invisible to keep away from from the cold fire.Another thing how could cold fire be cold.Serena was the one who can go through it and save her own friends life.Jemina was thankful that she could try to be more trustworthy and see what the inside from not her premonitions and see for herself.Serena is phychic and she is one of mysteries of the Daughters of the Moon. If you want to hear more about the Daughters of the Moon check out the Volume 3.Jemina couldn't stop thinking of Veto who died last year and he appears in her kitchen.While she was going to ask him what is he doing here he comes up and kisses her in the mouth .Was her feelings still strong?She felt his cheeck and his small scar that was warm.What do you think of that if you want hear more check it out!

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Repressed memories lead to a terrifying ordeal for a man with supernatural abilities
Lacking.
This time, Koontz tries too hard but fails.
Home With a Cold, Sitting by the Fire if You Need Something to Read, This Will Please!
Powerful but slows down the pace.....

Cold Fire
Dean Koontz
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ASIN: 0425199584

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On an impulse, schoolteacher Jim Ironheart flies to Portland, Oregon without understanding why. There he saves a boy from being killed by a drunk driver and is observed by Holly Thorne.

She tracks Jim to California, and their lives intertwine on one of Jim's lifesaving missions. Surviving a plane crash, terrifying monsters that materialize from Holly's nightmares, and an uncannily powerful adversary, they search for the source of Jim's psychic power.

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Repressed memories lead to a terrifying ordeal for a man with supernatural abilities.......2007-09-18

Dean Koontz is without question one of the modern world's most prolific fiction writers, and few outside the world of professional literary criticism would question his credentials as an entertainer. His books contain stories that sometimes horrify and often inspire; his characters prompt readers to examine their own lives and motivations; his plots keep his fans turning pages late into the night.

In recent years, Koontz has drifted away from the pure thriller, striking a more introspectively humorous tone. The Odd Thomas series, for example, along with standalone novels like Life Expectancy and The Husband, present philosophical explorations of things like relationships and fate. Cold Fire is not such a book. Though it certainly contains philosophical and even theological elements, it is first and foremost a thriller.

Jim Ironheart is grocery shopping when he feels a sudden, inexplicable--though not unfamiliar--call. "Life line," he says to a woman standing next to him, and then his life changes.

Jim, for reasons he can't begin to understand and by means he can't even dream of, has become something of a superhero, feeling drawn to seemingly random places at seemingly random times, arriving often with only seconds to spare before he finds himself in a position to save a life. He attributes this strange ability to the call of God in his life, and though he doesn't understand it and doesn't even always appreciate it, he accepts it.

Holly Thorne is a reporter who witnesses one of Jim's acts of unwitting heroism. Intrigued by his uncanny ability to always be in the right place at exactly the right time, she opens an investigation into his history. What she finds draws her and Jim together as they uncover secrets long buried and face a danger more sinister than anything either of them could have imagined.

The book's action is nonstop from virtually the first page, as readers are drawn into Jim's unique life and Holly's determined quest. As the story progresses, Koontz takes very little time out for deep questions, but several interesting issues come up in dialog between Jim and Holly. The most compelling of these has to do with the nature and identity of God, whom Jim credits with having called him to his extraordinary life.

The book--the first two-thirds of it, anyway--is therefore profoundly religious, though not in the typical Protestant, Evangelical sense. God is undeniably present, but his nature is not always kind. The basic religious worldview of the characters can be summed up in this excerpt: "Adam disobeyed and ate the apple, gobbled up the fruit of knowledge, so God decided to let him know all sorts of things, both light and dark. Adam's children learned to hunt, to farm, to thwart the winter and cook their food with fire, make tools, build shelters. And God . . . let them learn, oh, maybe a million ways to suffer and die. He encouraged them to learn language, reading and writing, biology, chemistry, physics, the secrets of the genetic code. And He taught them the exquisite horrors of brain tumors, muscular dystrophy, bubonic plague, cancer run amok in their bodies--and not least of all airplane crashes."
Later, a character says, "I've met up with some people who're such walking scum, it'd be an insult to animals to call them animals. If I thought God always dealt mercifully with their kind, I wouldn't want anything to do with God."

The story is certainly exciting--breathtakingly so at times. One of the highlights (though not the ultimate climax) is a plane-crash scene that typifies Koontz's bare-knuckle writing style that puts the reader right in the middle of the kind of chair-grabbing suspense largely missing from his more recent works.

Cold Fire contains little foul language, though there are a few fairly tame sex scene and several passages containing violence. Some readers may object to Koontz's depiction of God as a largely unknowable mystery, but for those who appreciate the idea that God works in mysterious ways and enjoy the fact that things aren't always what they seem, this is Dean Koontz at his best.

Lacking........2007-09-11

Well developed characters, a good story line, and some exciting sequences, however, it loses steam about half way, and although Mr. Koontz tries to recover going into the ending it just doesn't happen. A dissappointment, and not really worthy of three stars.

This time, Koontz tries too hard but fails........2007-07-17

You can usually count on Koontz to deliver a suspenseful novel with well written, three dimensional characters. But in "Cold Fire" the suspense is lacking. There are some pretty spectacular sequences but they're not integreted into the story in a way that makes them suspenseful.

Koontz creates characters with depth, that are psychologically believable, and this is one of the things that sets him apart from many other suspense novelists and is one of the things I used to like him for. But this time, he's taking it way too far, and combines it with some supernatural elements that never feels believable.

"Cold Fire" is a disappointment pretty much from the beginning. It feels like Koontz tried too hard on the psychological part and forgot the suspense. And to add insult to injury it ends up in an anticlimax that feels like a half hearted attempt to copy Stephen King's "The Dark Half". Not recommended.

Home With a Cold, Sitting by the Fire if You Need Something to Read, This Will Please!.......2007-06-27

Cold Fire is really two novels in one, the first half being a fast paced action packed ride following Jim Ironheart, a man without knowing how he knows is constantly risking his life to save innocent lives who if he wasn't on the scene would otherwise die. The second half is slower paced with Holly Thorne a journalist who became obsessed with Jim, together with Jim finding out the source of the voice in his head and discovering true terror. Cold Fire is a good book that you won't be able to put down until the final page.

Powerful but slows down the pace............2007-05-28

The beginning of this book had me hooked. Why would a virtual stranger fly all across the world to save people. The beginning helps solve only a portion of that question and towards the end it lags with a dreary back story and lots of slow paced non-action. The "love" story intertwined in this was a bit off in my book but hey - i had to give it 4 stars for trying.

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Magical and is the best of the Circle Opens
an excellent piece of writing by Tamora Pierce
Pierce does it again!!
Better than the First Two
Indeed, Tamora has done it again

Circle Opens: Cold Fire
Tamora Pierce
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ASIN: 0590396560

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Readers who have followed the fortunes of Daja and her foster siblings in Tamora Pierce's Circle of Magic and The Circle Opens sequences will not be disappointed by this continuation of Daja's adventures as a smith-mage. As her foster siblings Sandry and Briar struggle with their reluctant apprentices (Magic Steps, Street Magic), Daja and her teacher, Frostpine, settle into the northern Namorn city of Kugisko for a restful winter break. Not surprisingly, their illusions are promptly shattered, as Daja discovers that the twin daughters of her host have "ambient magic." As the discovering-mage, Daja is obliged to teach the fidgety girls the rudiments of magic. Meanwhile, Kugisko seems to have fallen into the hands of a ruthless arsonist, and Daja is determined to help her new firefighting friend, Bennat Ladradun, get to the bottom of the mystery. As always, Pierce's writing is both personable and thrilling. Kaja, a strapping, dark-skinned 14-year-old, is tremendously genuine; her powers seem to reflect inner strength rather than an arbitrary gift. An excellent, many-layered read. (Ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter

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Daja and Frostpine expect to spend some peaceful weeks with old friends in Namorn. But things begin to go awry as soon as they arrive. First Daja discovers that their hosts' twin daughters are mages. Then mysterious fires begin to blaze across the frigid city. Daja works with Bennat Ladradun, to locate what seems to be a serial arsonist. Daja's magic saves the city from going up in flames, but nothing and nobody can save her the disappointment of learning that the arsonist is someone close to her own heart.

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Magical and is the best of the Circle Opens.......2007-04-03

I think that this book is the best of the Circle Open's quartet! The characters are lovable like Daja and her teacher Frostpine. The magic is breath-taking and even though the book can be serious it is also fun! Tamora Pierce has definetly done an excellent job on this book. Guarenteed you'll be hooked from page one!

Daja and Frostpine went to Kugisko, cold and freezing Kugisko to visit old friends... They didn't expect to have too big of an adventure. It was SUPPOSED to be peaceful. Fires are spreading across the town and nobody knows who's starting them. They know that somebody is doing it on purpose...but who?

Daja also meets a man named Bennat Ladradun who's family was killed in a fire and now dedicates his life to fighting raging fires...is Ben really what Daja thinks he is?

Read 'Cold Fire'! It rocks!

an excellent piece of writing by Tamora Pierce.......2007-01-01

In my opinion, Cold Fire is more interesting than Magic Steps and Street Magic, simply because it introduces new concepts and themes into Tamora Pierce's writing. One such is traitorism. You know it's going to happen, but you dread it all the same. There is also more fear and suspense and less repetition than in the other books. It is a more complex novel. It may seem that Daja is an unfeeling character in the beginning because it is mostly written in denotation with no point of view behind her observation, but later in the novel, you'll find that this is not so. Daja shares memories of her past, and hints towards the future are apparant. The twins are amusing and Frostpine down to earth. There is a satisfying plot. It's great!

Pierce does it again!!.......2006-12-17

Tamora Pierce, a loved author has created another wonderful piece of work. It is definetley the best of the circle opens series and has great twists and turns. Fantasy and magic lovers are sure to enjoy this masterpiece considering how much is in it. Yet fantasy is what this book is it is also somewhat of a mystery. Not only does it have both mystery and fantasy but is also full of action and adventure! So many, many different people would enjoy this book.

Now in this book Daja kisbu is traveling with her teacher Frostpine north. They're staying with friends of theres who have twins. In this story Daja finds out that they each have a magical gift. One with cooking and the other with carpetry. Considering Daja discovered their powers she is responsible for teaching them or finding them good teachers. As she teaches the twins whom are nothing alike a mystery occurs. Daja and agents have found that fires are being perposley set in houses, stores etc. So she must find out who's killing people and causing all this trouble for nothing. She must face challenges when she finds who has been doing this right under her nose. Read 'Cold Fire' for it is a truley tremendous book!!
-Hannah M.

Better than the First Two.......2006-03-22

Cold Fire is the third book in The Circle Opens. Four years after the events chronicled in the Circle of Magic series, Daja and her teacher Frostpine have traveled to the northern country of Namorn to spend the winter. Now a fully credentialed smith mage, Daja is shocked that when she discovers two twins with ambient magic that she is obligated to teach them. Anxious to find teachers for the two girls, Daja meets and becomes friends with a man named Bennet Ladradun during her search. Ben is the village firefighter and Daja helps him save a blind girl from a burning building. Then an arsonist starts to set buildings all over the city on fire. Daja works to catch the criminal before he goes to far, but what she finds just might teach her more than she wants to know.

Unlike the series that comes before this one, The Circle Opens can easily be read out of order. I personally found the first two books rather slow compared to the earlier series and so I was reluctant to even pick this one up at all. I am so glad that I did. This book deals with slightly darker themes than the previous ones, so younger readers should exercise a bit of caution. The plot had quite a few twists and although you know who the arsonist is by the middle of the book, you keep hoping that you're wrong. A slightly sad ending, but overall a really good book.

Indeed, Tamora has done it again.......2005-08-27

I thoroughly enjoyed the third book of the Circle of Magic series because Daja had a chance to reclaim herself. In this, I think it's absolutely marvelous how much she has grown as a person. Of all of them so far, I think she has grown the most.

Koontz: Three Complete Novels: Cold Fire; Hideaway; The Key to Midnight

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a great buy for more than one reason!
It does not get better than this...
master of mystery keeps the hits coming again and again

Koontz: Three Complete Novels: Cold Fire; Hideaway; The Key to Midnight
Dean Koontz
Manufacturer: Putnam Adult
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ASIN: 0399146261
Release Date: 2000-08-24

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"Dean Koontz is not just a master of our darkest dreams, but a literary juggler." --The Times (London). In this compilation of chilling tales, he continues to captivate with complex characters and riveting suspense. A psychic and a reporter do battle with an unseen enemy in Cold Fire, while Hideaway explores the meaning of death and the transcendent power of love. In The Key to Midnight, published in hardcover for the first time, a woman awakes to find that her identity and memories have been manufactured for her.

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a great buy for more than one reason!.......2007-05-19

i am deployed to iraq and have a great love for reading. the biggest problem with this is how fast i read. i might read a book every 2 days or so and i dont always have enough foresight to bring more than one book along. with the three novels in one, if i finish a book while im out, i have two more right there with me. i recomend you buy this for the convenience, quality of writing and the decorative hardcover makes a nice addition to any library.

It does not get better than this..........2006-11-03

Koontz X 3...all in one book. And, at this low price. He is one of the most prolific writers of our time. His characters constant battles between the forces of good and evil hijacks you into staying up into the wee hours of the morning. It is hard to put any of his creations down. I just can't wait for the third installment of Frankenstein! Keep up the great stories Mr. Koontz.

But, as I said prior, three novels...one book...low price...Dean Koontz...it does not get better than this!

master of mystery keeps the hits coming again and again.......2001-04-06

I have read many of Dean Koontz's books, my favorites being "Fear Nothing," "Sole Survivor," and "Strangers".I really enjoy how his hits are being published in sets of three now, and I recomend that more readers will start exploring these new sets.(except for those people who start reading and can't finish till its done, because they wouldn't be able to sleep for a while reading all three stories in a row) My favorite story out of this set would have to be "HideAway," for I, like many people, have a interest in death and the power of love. The other titles, "Cold Fire" and "Key to Midnight", are intense and extremely "well discriptive", as are all of his books. I would recomend this "set" to any reader who has read at least a book or two by Koontz, for the newly-reads will need to have some experiance in intense/mystery. Well, i hope that this advice served you all well, and i wish the best for all of you Koontz readers, new and experianced!

Fire from Ice: Searching for the Truth Behind the Cold Fusion Furor (Wiley Science Editions)

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This Book Will be a Collectors Item
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Read this book!
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Balanced treatment of a profound and overlooked discovery

Fire from Ice: Searching for the Truth Behind the Cold Fusion Furor (Wiley Science Editions)
Eugene J. Mallove
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ASIN: 0471531391

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Offering the prospect of clean, safe, and unlimited energy, nuclear fusion has long been the shining hope for a world disastrously dependent on dwindling supplies of fossil fuels. Two generations of the brightest scientific minds and billions of dollars have been devoted to designing and building experimental reactors that mimic the unimaginably extreme temperatures and pressures needed to produce nuclear reactions akin to those that power the Sun and the stars.

Then, suddenly, in the spring of 1989, Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann, research chemists at the University of Utah, made an announcement that rocked the scientific world and made front-page news for months to follow. Their claim to have achieved nuclear fusion in a simple tabletop experiment and at room temperature defied sacrosanct conventional physical theories. And the scientific establishment would not take that challenge of cold fusion lying down. Within hours, even as the press was proclaiming a possible new era of unlimited clean energy, cries of disbelief and accusations of scientific misconduct and even fraud were heard from within professional circles.

Researchers in laboratories around the world mobilized in an unprecedented effort to explain Pons and Fleischmanns experiments. A mountain of confusing, seemingly contradictory results began to pile up. Soon, leading scientific journals were regularly publishing cold fusion obituaries, and bitter editorials questioning the methods and motives of the cold fusion pioneers. Cold fusion was dead. . . or was it? Almost unnoticed, a steadfast group of hundreds of optimistic researchers around the world continues to search for a solution to the tantalizing cold fusion enigma.

In Fire from Ice, astronautical engineer and well-known author, Eugene Mallove, sheds a new and very different light on the cold fusion confusion. Based on personal interviews with many of the people involved, as well as his firsthand experiences in laboratories and scientific conferences, he offers a unique insiders view of that divisive controversy, while at the same time clearly explaining the relevant science and technology. And Dr. Mallove convincingly argues that cold fusion may yet prove to be real.

A story of scientific ambition and professional rivalry, political intrigue and hard science, Fire from Ice is the fascinating account of one of the most intense and momentous scientific controversies of all time.

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This Book Will be a Collectors Item.......2004-11-08

Eugene Mallove tragically lost his life earlier this year in a simple act of barbarism. So odd that a man who devoted his life to one of the most neglected and abstract fields of science in the late 20th Century would die in such a senseless manner. Luckily, Gene's lifes work will not be a waste, as Cold Fusion is finally starting to achieve the recognition it rightly deserves. It will be pinoneers like Dr. Mallove who will be remembered for keeping the Cold Fusion flame alive during some of its darkest moments. Buy and read this book, it's sure to be a collectors item soon, as Cold Fusion will soon emerge as a mainstream field of science and Dr. Mallove will be exonerated for persuing such a taboo field of science.

A must read!.......2004-05-26

I am a Coast to Coast AM listener. I would like to have everyone read his book. It is remarkable. I think that the leaders of the world should all have a copy! I would also like to send my deepest prayers to the family of this beloved author, Eugene Mallove. He and his work will be greatly missed. Blessings to his family and friends.

Read this book!.......2000-04-02

I thought this was a great book. If you want an intriguing book about the controversial energy source of the future you must read this book. It is an excellent read!

An example of wishful ideation ?.......1999-09-24

As far as style of thinking is concerned, Dr. Mallove is far closer to, e.g., creationists than to, e.g., Carl Sagan. He has let his intense messianic desire that cold fusion be a reality completely cloud his scientific judgement. The loony, physics-ignorant hordes of cold-fusion advocates include such worthies as a fellow in Australia who has sold kits of magnets and a ball-bearing which he has claimed will roll around a closed track forever with no visible means of propulsion. Dr. Mallove does not refute such garbage. In this reviewer's opinion he is either delusional or simply a con man on a par with Erich von Daniken or Whitley Strieber.

Balanced treatment of a profound and overlooked discovery.......1998-11-04

Mallove has produced a fine documentary of the early days of the cold fusion controversy, which has developed into an underground science. Ignorance of this discovery will be viewed with the kind of curiosity that causes us to wonder why the discovery of the 'cat's wisker' transistor in the 20's did not lead to any kind of serious research effort for several decades in a world that desperately needs clean energy.

Plutarch: Moralia, Volume XII, Concerning the Face Which Appears in the Orb of the Moon. On the Principle of Cold. Whether Fire or Water Is More Useful. Whether Land...(Loeb Classical Library No. 406)

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Plutarch: Moralia, Volume XII, Concerning the Face Which Appears in the Orb of the Moon. On the Principle of Cold. Whether Fire or Water Is More Useful. Whether Land...(Loeb Classical Library No. 406)
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Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. 45-120 CE, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given consular rank by the emperor Trajan and a procuratorship in Greece by Hadrian. He was married and the father of one daughter and four sons. He appears as a man of kindly character and independent thought, studious and learned.

Plutarch wrote on many subjects. Most popular have always been the 46 Parallel Lives, biographies planned to be ethical examples in pairs (in each pair, one Greek figure and one similar Roman), though the last four lives are single. All are invaluable sources of our knowledge of the lives and characters of Greek and Roman statesmen, soldiers and orators. Plutarch's many other varied extant works, about 60 in number, are known as Moralia or Moral Essays. They are of high literary value, besides being of great use to people interested in philosophy, ethics and religion.

The Loeb Classical Library edition of the Moralia is in fifteen volumes, volume XIII having two parts.

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Cold Fire

Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons
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ASIN: B000GLRTOI

PROTOSTARS: What Makes a Cage Jamie Knows; I'll Be Waiting for You When the Swimming Pool is Empty; In a Sky of Daemons; The Last Ghost; Afternoon with a Dead Bus; Eyes of Onyx; The World Where Wishes Worked; Cold the Fire of the Phoenix; Oasis

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PROTOSTARS: What Makes a Cage Jamie Knows; I'll Be Waiting for You When the Swimming Pool is Empty; In a Sky of Daemons; The Last Ghost; Afternoon with a Dead Bus; Eyes of Onyx; The World Where Wishes Worked; Cold the Fire of the Phoenix; Oasis

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ASIN: 0345023935

With the First Dream of Fire They Hunt the Cold, a Body of Work 1966/2000

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A revelation

With the First Dream of Fire They Hunt the Cold, a Body of Work 1966/2000
Trevor Joyce
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A revelation.......2005-05-12

I met Trevor in 1996 at a poetry conference in New Hampshire, & knew nothing about him; I was intrigued by his reading there & he kindly gave me copies of _stone floods_ & _The Poems of Sweeny Peregrine_. The first looks superficially like a set of spare, relatively "conventional" lyrics; the second like a translation of the medieval Irish book of Sweeney. (Both impressions aren't exactly wrong but I've gradually realized that there's far more going on in those books....) What really excited me was Trevor's subsequent development, in poems like _Syzygy_, _Hopeful Monsters_, _Without Asylum_ & _Trem Neul_--a poetry as carefully worked-out & full of buried interconnections as the work of his namesake (& distant relative) James Joyce, but with a terse precision closer to Beckett or to the Chinese poetry he's studied for years.

If you want my full review of this (much longer than can be posted at Amazon) you can find it at http://www.soundeye.org/trevorjoyce/chicagoreview.pdf. In any case, this is for me one of the most important collected-poems volumes of the past decade.

10 Titles Don Pendleton Executioner Series (110-119) : Trojan Horse The Fiery Cross Blood of the Lion Vietnam Fallout Cold Judgment Circle of Steel Killing Urge Vendetta in Venice Warrior's Revenge Line of Fire

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10 Titles Don Pendleton Executioner Series (110-119) : Trojan Horse The Fiery Cross Blood of the Lion Vietnam Fallout Cold Judgment Circle of Steel Killing Urge Vendetta in Venice Warrior's Revenge Line of Fire
Mike Newton
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