Summer Gold: Sweet Wind, Wild Wind\A Wolf River Summer
Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
  • What a Disappointment
  • A very good read!!
Summer Gold: Sweet Wind, Wild Wind\A Wolf River Summer
Elizabeth Lowell , and Barbara McCauley
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ASIN: 0373218133

Book Description

It was going to be a long hot, passionate summer . . .

One treasured novel -- and a brand-new favorite!

Sweet Wind, Wild Wind
by New York Times bestselling author
Elizabeth Lowell

Growing up, vulnerable Lara Chandler had never forgotten her illegitimacy. Yet the man who'd most tempted her was her father's adopted son. Spurned by him, she'd fled. But now she'd returned on business -- and this time Carson's burning passion wouldn't let him turn her down once more . . . !

A Wolf River Summer
an original novel by
Barbara McCauley

Heads turned and telephones rang when Clay Bodine came to town. Yet the solitary rancher's scandalous past made Paige Andrews, the primmest, most proper woman in Wolf River, secretly long to redeem him. And when Clay came asking her for help, Paige knew there would never be a hotter summer in Texas . . .

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars What a Disappointment.......2003-07-11

Having religiously read (and loved) Elizabeth Lowell, I was ecstatic to see this previously released novel reprinted. However, the novel does not live up to my expectations. Clearly, Elizabeth Lowell's novels have gotten better over the years (thank goodness). But as a consumate Lowell fan, this really does not compare to some of her more recent attempts.

5 out of 5 stars A very good read!!.......2003-06-12

All the characters in this in this double feature are great. The woman are forthright and not those brainless idiots types in some novels I've read. You really won't waste your money on this one.:)
Murder of a Sweet Old Lady (Scumble River Mysteries, Book 2)
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Skeletons in the family closet
  • Absolutely Riveting
  • Down-home Murder Mystery
  • Good, but...
  • Interesting Small-Town Cozy!
Murder of a Sweet Old Lady (Scumble River Mysteries, Book 2)
Denise Swanson
Manufacturer: Signet
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0451202724
Release Date: 2001-04-10

Book Description

Second in the delightful new Scumble River mystery series... When school pyschologist Skye Denison's beloved grandma is found dead in her bed, an autopsy proves it was murder. And Skye is determined to find out whodunit, even if the answer lies in the rotten roots of her own family tree.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Skeletons in the family closet.......2004-12-24

Skye Denison enjoys her daily visits to her grandmother to hear stories of her family's history. On one of her visits she is horrified to find that her grandmother has died. She calls the local coronor, Simon, whom she is dating, much to the disgust of her family, who like to keep family business private. Soon she finds herself investigating her kin and alienating many of them in the process. If this isn't enough, she is in trouble with her school district's superintendant who wants her to falsify her school psychologist's records in order to please an influential parent. A third complication is her love life which now includes two men who vie for her affection. Having been a school employee with a job similar to Skye's, I recognize the problems she encounters with parents and administrators. My only objection to Skye's behavior is that she seems to think nothing of being late for school or trying to take last-minute personal days when she has other things to do. Most school employees are very conscientious about their attendance. This book is the second in the series and shows good progress in plot and character development. All in all, it's an enjoyable read.

5 out of 5 stars Absolutely Riveting.......2004-03-17

I just love Skye Denison, Denise Swanson's amateur sleuth. She's a school psychologist who has to battle parents who can't wrap their flaccid minds around the fact that perhaps their little Betty or Reginald isn't as perfect as paradise. With these little battles to...well, battle, the last thing poor Skye needs is someone to murder her beloved grandmother, Antonia Leofanti. But someone has. Sky finds her grandma dead as the proverbial doornail in the poor old lady's bedroom, with the covers pulled up over her head, only a cloud of wispy gray hair peeking over the top. Later on the same day, or perhaps the next day, Antonia's maid and caregiver, Mrs. Jankowski is found in an abandoned well or some such, along with a half a pan of poisoned brownies jammed in beside her. As if all this isn't enough, Skye is almost positive that the person(s) who murdered her grandma and Mrs. J is a person in her family. This is a fun, fast mystery that I had a terrible time putting down.

5 out of 5 stars Down-home Murder Mystery.......2003-09-10

This was my first time reading one of Denise Swanson's books and I will definitely read the rest of the Skye Denison series. From the very first chapter, I was hooked on the small town flavor of the book. Ms. Swanson's writing style takes the reader through twists and turns that entice the mystery connoisseur. Perfect light reading for a vacation.

4 out of 5 stars Good, but..........2003-07-16

I thought this book was good, but I didn't really get into the storyline that much. The idea of her grandmother being murdered by a family member is a very good one, but Ms. Swanson didn't really live up to my hopes. This book could have been much better handled with the idea, and the fact that someone from the family was the responsible for the murder was an interesting one.

So far, of the three books that I've read in this series, the first one is still my favorite (Murder of a Small-Town Honey). I hope that the fourth book (Murder of a Snake in the Grass) becomes my new favorite once I find time to read it.

-Ater

4 out of 5 stars Interesting Small-Town Cozy!.......2003-07-12

In the 2nd book in the Scumble River mystery series, we see amateur sleuth, Skye Denison working hard at fitting into her hometown and finishing up the school year. Skye is a school psychologist, returning home to live and work after humiliating herself while delivering a valedictorian speech 12 years prior. It seems that Skye left with a chip on her shoulder about "the small minds of those in a small town" and has to return home with her tail tucked firmly between her legs after losing her last job. Since she left her last job in disgrace (although it was not her fault), the only job she can get is in the school system that she shunned when she left town. While trying to re-establish herself in her hometown, she helped to solve a previous case that cleared her brother of murder.

In this case, Skye has been spending a lot of time with her grandmother to re-establish broken ties and to learn more about family history. When her grandmother dies suddenly after being given a clean bill of health from her doctor, Skye gets suspicious. And when she learns that her grandmother's caretaker has vanished, family members start to hypothesize that she murdered the grandmother. While suspecting everyone (including her own family members) Skye determines that she will ferret out some old family secrets and in doing so will prove who killed her grandmother. Add to this that Skye is having difficulties with some students at school, and you have an interesting, engaging cozy mystery!

I enjoyed this book much more than I had the first book in this series. I felt that the first book was valuable for its character development but did not offer as much of an interesting read as this one did. I like the characters in Scumble River, and enjoyed all of the relationships between family members as described in this book. I also enjoyed the fact that Skye faced a huge ethical dilemma, and it was interesting to see how she would handle this situation. If you like cozy mysteries involving small towns, give this series a try.

The first book in the series is "Murder of a Small Town Honey". Enjoy!
In the River Sweet
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • A great read
  • Amazing!
  • dreary, banal and pretentious, "River" runs dry quickly
  • Beautifully written -wonderful characters
  • A Sweet Read
In the River Sweet
Patricia Henley
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ASIN: 0385721323
Release Date: 2004-04-13

Book Description

National Book Award finalist Patricia Henley captivates us with this engrossing novel of a woman whose long-held secret will transform her life and her marriage.

From all appearances, Ruth Anne Bond is enviably lucky. Her husband, Johnny, still treats her like a young lover. Her grown daughter is a staunch friend. Her steady work and devotion to the church have quietly made her a pillar of the community. Then one long Indiana summer brings some unexpected communiqués—including one she has both craved and feared for thirty years. As long-hidden truths threaten to emerge, for the first time in her marriage Ruth Anne is faced with memories she and Johnny never discuss: of a year spent in Saigon in 1968—and a past she has yet to acknowledge. Probing questions of family and faith, Patricia Henley offers us a tender, far-sighted novel about seeking answers and achieving grace.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A great read.......2006-01-12

This book is a wonderful, emotionally raw story. There is just a real honesty to it, a pretty hard thing to come by when you're reading a made up story. You really just get into the characters' skins. I wish I could find more books by this person. An excellent author, and a fantastic novel.

5 out of 5 stars Amazing!.......2005-10-03

This is a beautiful novel about human nature, history, relationships, and much, much more. What a talented author!

2 out of 5 stars dreary, banal and pretentious, "River" runs dry quickly.......2004-10-09

It would take quite an effort to make the legacy of the Vietnam War, the consequences of withholding secrets from a spouse and the impact of reuniting with a child after some thirty years of separation uninspiring and boring. Not only does National Book Award finality Patricia Henley do that in her terminally stultifying "In the River Sweet," she does so with a style that deliberately bedevils her readers. Overwritten, unnecessarily atmospheric and banal, her novel fails in every task she set for it to achieve.

On the surface, the dilemmas faced by Ruth Anne Bond compel interest and engagement. She breaks away from her tyrannical aunt and journeys to Vietnam in the late 1960s to be with her loving fiance only to discover that he is missing in action. An innocent relationship with a blind Vietnamese man results in a pregnancy and a subsequent giving up of her newborn son. Years later, these events, as they invariably do, come back to haunt her. "In the River Sweet" never makes up its mind as to how to develop the important themes of legacy, love and family.

Instead, Henley prefers labored paragraphs detailing the interminable confusions and ambivalences Ruth Anne experiences. Predictably, she withdraws from her devoted husband, Johnny, who, in turn, is frustrated by his inability to reach the woman to whom he has devoted his life. Mired in religious angst -- naturally enough, Ruth Anne retreats to a Catholic convent where the nuns neatly incorporate Buddhist meditation into their theology -- Ruth Anne spends nearly one hundred pages wondering if she should respond to a computer salutation from her long-abandoned son, who, it goes without saying, now lives in a neighboring city.

If this potboiler treatment of serious issues isn't bad enough, the book is a stylistic disaster. Henley has chosen to eschew all punctuation in her dialogue, making the reader work to merely decode her inept use of dialogue. Why do authors refuse to adhere to the conventions of written English? Does Henley think that "River" becomes more of a work of art by eliminating quotation marks? By forcing readers to spend their energy on simply understanding her prose, Henley only proves her own pretentiousness.

Finishing "In the River Sweet" requires one to wade through nearly three-hundred pages of under-edited, overripe writing. Those who desire an understanding of the consequences of the Vietnam War would be better served by speaking directly to a Vietnam vet or visiting the Wall in Washington, D.C. Patricia Henley's greatest transgression against that divisive and still-upsetting war is to make it boring and trivial. Those who experienced it directly and who still suffer its legacy deserve much, much more than what she delivers.

5 out of 5 stars Beautifully written -wonderful characters.......2004-04-22

This book was about people I really came to respect and care about deeply. It's also thought-provoking on a number of levels - secrets v. openness, the legacy of Vietnam, the failure/disappointment Ruth feels in her traditional Catholicism, making peace with the past, etc. I would recommend this book strongly . Didn't find it at all confusing, as some others have said. Can't wait to read Hummingbird House now.

5 out of 5 stars A Sweet Read.......2004-03-15

I thoroughly enjoyed In The River Sweet. Henley addresses several intense, important issues but the book is not confusing or overwhelming. Her stories are so touching and give a very rich picture of each character, without becoming bogged down in unnecessary details. I couldn't put this book down!
The Blackwater Chronicle: A Narrative of an Expedition into the Land of Canaan in Randolph County, Virginia (West Virginia and Appalachia Series, 2)
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    The Blackwater Chronicle: A Narrative of an Expedition into the Land of Canaan in Randolph County, Virginia (West Virginia and Appalachia Series, 2)
    Philip Pendleton Kennedy
    Manufacturer: West Virginia University
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    Binding: Hardcover

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    ASIN: 0937058653

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    In the summer of 1851, a western Virginia innkeeper told five of his gentlemen guests that, "if you can only reach the falls of the Blackwater, you can take more trout in an hour than you ever took before in all your lives."

    The travelers answered the challenge, and hiked into the rugged and remote valley. This first-person account of their adventure brims with joy, humor, and the majesty of the unspoiled American wilderness.
    Amazon Sweet Sea: Land, Life, and Water at the River's Mouth
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • WATCH, READ AND LEARN - AMAZON MEETS ATLANTIC
    • Historical and natural history of the Amazon estuary
    Amazon Sweet Sea: Land, Life, and Water at the River's Mouth
    Nigel J. H. Smith
    Manufacturer: University of Texas Press
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    ASIN: 0292777701

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    Far into the Atlantic Ocean, the outflow from the Amazon River creates a "sweet sea" of fresh water. At the river's mouth, a vast delta of river channels and marshes, floodplain and upland forests, open and scrub savannas, floating meadows, and mangrove swamps hosts an astonishingly diverse assemblage of plant and animal life. So rich is this biological treasure house that early European explorers deemed it inexhaustible. In this highly readable book, Nigel Smith explores how human use of the Amazon estuary's natural resources has been affected by technological change, rapid urban growth, and accelerated market integration. Avoiding alarmist rhetoric, he shows how human intervention in the estuary has actually diversified agriculture and helped save floodplain forests from wanton destruction. His findings underscore the importance of understanding the history of land use and the ecological knowledge of local people when formulating development and conservation policies. The book will be of interest to everyone concerned with the fate of tropical forests, conserving biodiversity, and developing natural resources in a sustainable manner.

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars WATCH, READ AND LEARN - AMAZON MEETS ATLANTIC.......2005-05-16

    Nigel Smith is a longtime student of the Brazilian Amazon. In this illustrated book, he attempts to capture the social, economic and environmental reality of the estuary region of the Amazon river, where it meets the Atlantic Ocean.

    This is a wonderfully illustrated book, with the pictures going a long way in capturing the reality of the region. The region is quite peculiar even within the Amazon in that it suffers the influence of the Ocean, with ingredients such as daily tides and beaches that are not common elsewhere in the Amazon.

    The social and economic contrasts are vast: on the one hand, there is the city of Belem, with over 1 million people and a cosmopolitan feel to it; on the other hand, you have the people who live in the banks of the thousands of rivers that crisscross each other on the way to the Ocean, living very simple lives, often without electricity. The book depicts, with few words and many images, the distinct local living conditions.

    The environmental aspect, which makes the region all the more interesting, is present throughout. Despite an economy heavily dependent on natural resources, especially in the Marajo island, the author presents an ecossystem that is often well integrated with man. For example, he demonstrates how people survive off gathering acai (a local plant), crab or eels, in such a way that the resources are naturally replenished.

    The sweet sea is clearly a distinct region from the rest of the Amazon, and hence deserves unique attention. The books gives one a full view of life there (human or not), which is quite amazing. I highly recommend this book for the armchair voyageur, or to someone considering visiting Belem and surroundings. It will definitely give you a perspective that most of the locals don't even have.

    5 out of 5 stars Historical and natural history of the Amazon estuary.......2004-04-08

    Author's field works and photographs document changes in the way people and their environment interact. Book design: Heidi Haeuser.
    The River Runs Salt, Runs Sweet: A Memoir of Visegrad, Bosnia
    Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
    • Emotionally Powerful Book for the Classroom
    • The river runs salt, runs sweet: a memoir of Visegrad, Bosni
    • A clear-eyed look at the worst, and best, of human nature
    • Terrible!!!
    • A fascinating, sobering perspective
    The River Runs Salt, Runs Sweet: A Memoir of Visegrad, Bosnia
    Jasmina Dervisevic-Cesic , Joanna Vogel , and Bruce Holland Rogers
    Manufacturer: Panisphere Books and Audio
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    ASIN: 0970421036

    Book Description

    At 15, Jasmina Dervisevic had typical teenage problems. How could she talk to the boy she liked without making a fool of herself? Would she find the right shoes to wear to the high-school party?

    She had heard the old stories about World War II, when neighbor turned against neighbor, but she seldom gave them a second thought. That had all happened ages ago, and she was living in a modern Yugoslavian city where Serbs and Muslims were close friends.

    Then Yugoslavia began to break apart. The national army turned its guns against its own people, and Jasmina had to grow up fast.

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Emotionally Powerful Book for the Classroom.......2007-03-15

    This is the best account of the effects of war on a normal civilian that I have ever read and I've read hundreds of accounts on war! While "Anne Frank's Diary" and other accounts might be more detailed or more literary, they often fail to set the stage moving from "normality" to the realities of war and don't capture the many varied experiences of civilians such as staying in your home, fleeing as a refugee, and undergoing a siege unlike "River Runs Salt, Runs Sweet."

    This is a first person memoir of Jasmina Dervisevic-Cesic and her experiences immediately before and during the Bosnian War. The tone of the writing is matter-of-fact and does not sensationalize; it is this matter-of-fact tone that gives so much power to the story as it describes the disintegration of Jasmina's town and life. If it used sensationalized facts or powerful rhetoric it might be considered more literary, but it would lose much of its value as a dispassionate account.

    The story begins when Jasmina is 15 in the peaceful town of Visegrad, Bosnia. Moslems and Serbs live peacefully together. Her life was that of a typical teenage girl concerned with school, boys, family, and friends. She meets her future husband, Suljo, while swimming in the Drina River flowing through Visegrad. Suljo serves his conscription time in the Yugoslav Army and then leaves for work in France. During this time, the peaceful world of Visegrad begins to unravel. Like all wars, it begins in small ways and in some distant place. First Jasmina notices more Chetniks, radicalized Serbs, on the streets of Belgrade while visiting there - it unsettled her but was of no major concern to her life. Then Croatia declares independence and the Yugoslav Army goes to war to prevent their independence.

    Jasmina describes it as a "television war" and again it didn't seem to have a direct impact on her life in Visegrad. This is so typical of normal human behavior that they aren't concerned with things that don't directly affect them and it gives Jasmina's account credibility. Then boys from Visegrad serving in the Yugoslav Army begin to lose contact with family members, and the people in the town become involved. Serbs in the town send their children to Serbia or leave as a family altogether. But life goes on for most people - friends got married and parties were important. Suljo returns home from France and proposes to Jasmina. They get married and honeymoon in Sarajevo. Their happy new marriage life is interrupted when the Yugoslav Army and Serb militia begin shooting into a nearby village. Now, war is something that can't be ignored. Young men leave to help the village and refugees flee it. In one event after another, Jasmina shares her experiences of war; horrors, amazing kindnesses, fear, continual uncertainty, rumors flying all over the place, sacrifices, sudden death, desperate shortages of everything from food to electricity, and personal tragedy.

    She details her experiences in Sarajevo during its siege. While the events in Sarajevo are not as harrowing of those in Leningrad during the 911 days of siege where over 1 million died, the events in Sarajevo are horrible just the same and far more recent than World War II. Her incredible struggle to escape the war-torn city will leave a lasting impression. Somehow Jasmina manages not to let bitterness rule her nor overwhelm her narrative, though it does escape sometimes like when she talks of the UN inactions in Bosnia and a few times when she speaks of her complacent Serb neighbors. And, yes, she is a Bosnian Muslim. This only adds to the value of the book as a humanization of Muslims that is particularly important post-9/11. The memoir is about as unbiased as you could expect any human to be who experienced a war first hand. And it will leave you amazed at the strength of a normal person in the face of incredible loss.

    Topics discussed; war, death, sacrifice, radicalization of a society, genocide, rape camps, suffering, perseverance, disability, and survival.

    I highly recommend this book for classroom discussion over "Anne Frank's Diary" or other historical accounts of war, because modern students will see World War II and Vietnam as ancient history but they just might remember the Bosnian War. I looked for Iraq War civilian memoirs but they just haven't emerged yet. Many Americans experience so much as just distant "television wars" - and this can make it human. I suspect many males will want more of an account of war from the soldier's perspective, but this is a powerful, real story that will grab them if they continue reading. For reluctant male readers, I challenge them to see if they could survive what Jasmina did. Women will more quickly relate to Jasmina. It is highly suitable to classroom instruction and would be great for the foundation of a unit on memoirs and war. Highly recommended for ages 13 and up, but enjoyable to the adult as well, due to nature of topics.

    5 out of 5 stars The river runs salt, runs sweet: a memoir of Visegrad, Bosni.......2005-02-23

    Very honest.Tuching.
    After reading this book, I was thinking of Jasmina few weeks.
    Strong women.

    Vahdeta

    5 out of 5 stars A clear-eyed look at the worst, and best, of human nature.......2004-05-30

    "How do we suvive the things that happen to us, these horrible things? By taking this moment, and then the next one, one at a time. By telling our truth without being broken to pieces by the difference between what our lives once were and what they had become."
    --from "The River Runs Salt, Runs Sweet"

    This memoir of a Bosnian girl who comes of age during the disintegration of Yugoslavia is a fascinating story but, even more, it is an important piece of literature, in the tradition of Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl, and When Heaven and Earth Changed Places. The telling is simple and straightforward, but the messages, like the war itself, are complex. Through Jasmina's eyes, we see not only the loss and horror of war, but we feel the spirit of cooperation fostered by it, and the live-in-the-moment adrenaline rush. We watch children who grew up as friends turn away from each other to take sides based on hostilities perpetrated long before they were born. We view both the Serbs and the UN peacekeeping forces as obstacles in a very real human "video game." We see the frustration of those who must deal with unnecessary bureaucracy in order to secure necessary help and care. We witness wartime medical care at its most barbaric, and are given rare insight into the human ability to survive.

    The River Runs Salt, Runs Sweet is an excellent depiction of an ordinary life blown apart by political and cultural violence. We in the US can talk political theory and debate the merits of waging war while we relax, clean, warm and well-fed, in front of the TV, at a safe distance from the consequences of what governments actually do. But only those who live the disruption, confusion and destruction, the great discomfort and crushing losses and, yes, the fierce comradery, know what war really is. Jasmina Dervisevic-Cesic gives us a gift of first-hand witness; she re-lives her experience on paper here for us with enormous bravery, a measure of anger, and a river of hard-won wisdom. This is history at ground level, immediate and affecting. It is a clear-eyed look into the worst, and the best, of human nature. Teenagers will relate to it because of the youth of the narrator, but readers of all ages will gain a fresh, insider perspective into the surprisingly familiar culture and baffling political morass that was the dying Yugoslavia. Jasmina tells her truth with skill; we stand to gain much, on a human scale, by listening.

    Susan O'Neill
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    Don't Mean Nothing: Short Stories of Viet Nam

    1 out of 5 stars Terrible!!!.......2004-05-23

    This is honestly the worst book I have ever read. Just the thought of the author makes me nauseous. I strongly recommend that no one purchase this book.

    5 out of 5 stars A fascinating, sobering perspective.......2003-12-06

    I thoroughly enjoyed this book and even when I wanted to put it down, because it was so troubling to read, I couldn't do so because I was quickly engulfed by the story. I was hooked immediately by the clear pure voice of Jasmina.
    As she describes her home town and her life there before the war, I was struck by the sereneness of the town and the love and sense of belonging everyone who lived there had.
    The nightmare that followed is unbelievable. To read a first person account tears out your heart, but you have to keep reading to find out how it ends.
    At the end, I felt outraged at what happened but privileged to have been given this piece of understanding into a situation, which I hope never to encounter.
    4 Titles By Hockett - Sweet Savage Surrender - Outlaw Seduction - Gentle Warrior - River of Passion
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      4 Titles By Hockett - Sweet Savage Surrender - Outlaw Seduction - Gentle Warrior - River of Passion
      Kathryn Hockett
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      4 massmarket paperback Titles By Hockett - Sweet Savage Surrender - Outlaw Seduction - Gentle Warrior - River of Passion
      ANA National Money Show Auction (Rod Sweet Collection, Part 3; Robert Moreno Collection, High River Collection, S.S. Republic) April 7-8, 2005
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        ANA National Money Show Auction (Rod Sweet Collection, Part 3; Robert Moreno Collection, High River Collection, S.S. Republic) April 7-8, 2005
        Bowers & Merena Auctions
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          THE BEST FROM GALAXY - Volume (3) (iii) Three: The Day Before the Revolution; Passages; The Private War of Pvt. Jacob; Sweet Sister Green Brother; Rivers of Damascus; The Glitch; Answer Came There None; The Splendid Freedom; End City; Opening Problem
          James (editor) (Ursula K. Le Guin; Joanna Russ; Joe Haldeman; Sydney J. Van Scyoc; R. A. Laffery; James Blish; James White; Arsen Darnay; Robert Sheckley; J. A. Lawrence; Frederik Pohl; Isaac Asimov) Baen
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          Big Note Favorites Simplified for Piano
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            Big Note Favorites Simplified for Piano
            Various Composers
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            Binding: Sheet music

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            Old Folks At Home, Dark Eyes, Deep River, Oh Susanna, Good Night Ladies, Long Long Ago, Drink to me Only, Santa Luia, Dream of Jeanie, Sweet and Low .

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