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#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell's heart-stopping thriller featuring gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta
In Richmond, Virginia, young lovers are dying. So far, four couples in the area have disappeared, only to be found months later as mutilated corpses. When the daughter of the president's newest drug czar vanishes along with her boyfriend, Dr. Kay Scarpetta knows time is short. Following a macabre trail of evidence that ties the present homicides to a grisly crime in the past, Kay must draw upon her own personal resources to track down a murderer who is as skilled at eliminating clues as Kay is at finding them....
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Don't waste your time on this one.......2007-09-02
I picked this book up at a dollar store and was so disappointed with the story. I kept reading and waiting for something solid to happen. It didn't. I was at the end when I finally accepted the fact that the book is no good. I was so glad when I finished this and hate I wasted so much time.
All That Remains.......2007-06-12
Typically, I prefer non-fiction material to fiction, however, this series by Ms. Cornwell is well written.
The author is able to keep the reader engaged throughout the entire book; with hints here, intrigue put strategically there.
I would recommend this book, and the series, to anyone who enjoys a good suspense.
Great book.......2007-01-10
I highly recommend this book. Very well written, great story. Love the Kay Scarpetta series.
Awesome.......2006-11-10
Loved this book! I am a huge fan of Patricia Cornwell. I look forward to reading more from her.
Absolutely the best writer ever.......2006-09-15
I have read almost everything of patricia cornwells and I must say she is one of the absolute best writers ever, I love her kay scarpetta series the best, I could not put those books down.
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Two great Patricia Cornwell audio titles for the price of one. All that Remains and Cruel and Unusual.
All that Remains:
A serial killer is loose in Richmond, specializing in attractive young couples whose bodies are invariably found in the woods months later –– minus their shoes and socks. Chief Medical Officer Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds herself tracking a killer who scrupulously eliminates every clue, rendering all her
forensic skills useless. This time it's her courage and intuition on the line in a race against time.
Cruel and Unusual:
When convicted killer Ronnie Joe Waddell is executed in Virginia's electric chair, he becomes what should be a routine case for Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta. But after Waddell's execution, everyone connected to him begins to die – including a member of Scarpetta's staff. When crucial records disappear from her files, Scarpetta comes under fire for incomeptence. Caught in a web of political intrigue, she must fight to free herself from murderous insinuations and threats to her own life. She soon finds herself retracing Waddell's bloody footprints, following a trail that might lead to long–hidden secrets deep within the state government. Either the truth will set her free – or unleash upon her a punishment both cruel and unusual.
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Patricia Cornwell has said that if she hadn't written her Kay Scarpetta thrillers--the classic first three are collected in this volume--she might find them too scary to read. After all, she is the rare crime writer who knows what she's talking about: she worked on the newspaper crime beat and at the Scotland Yard-like medical examiner's office in Richmond, Virginia, at a time when a serial killer was murdering women just like her. (Cornwell sleeps with a .38 within reach.)
Postmortem introduces Dr. Scarpetta, who knows the smell of bone dust from a skullcap saw and how to read a body for clues via lasers, DNA, and computers. As Scarpetta slowly closes in on a killer known as Mr. Nobody, she gets the creepy, well-informed feeling that the killer is closing in on her. Cornwell's debut swept the mystery-writing awards and made her somebody.
In Body of Evidence, Scarpetta investigates the murder of a Southern writer who mysteriously opened the door for her killer. In All That Remains, she hunts a serial killer of young lovers--including the daughter of the president's drug czar, which complicates the forensic chase with political intrigue.
Besides suspenseful cat-and-mouse games between sleuth and killer (and writer and reader), Cornwell creates a rich cast of screwed-up characters, chiefly Scarpetta's scruffy confrere, Detective Pete Marino. Scarpetta's character is a magnetic combination of pride, drive, brains, extreme skill at cooking, and a pervasive sadness expressed with tightly wound eloquence. With these books, Cornwell (a descendant of Harriet Beecher Stowe) increased her book deal from $6,000 to $24 million. She earned it.
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Blow Fly.......2004-06-22
Blow Fly follows on from where we last left Scarpetta, visibly breaking up as she, Lucy and Marino struggled to come to terms with the brutal death of Benton Wesley, FBI profiler. Now however,it turns out that all was not as it seemed to be in Last Precinct, that things are happening behind the scenes of which Scarpetta has no knowledge and more importantly, no control over. The notorious Chandonne cartel is still seemingly omnipresent, with the fact that he is on death row not standing in the way of the Wolfman, Jean Baptiste, in the slightest. The book, written in the third person narrative is, at times, slow, as though Cornwell needs to remind the readers of the plot after such a long time away from them, but generally it is a necessary tool which keeps things moving along coherently, and ties together everything at the end, so the story is conluded as far as possible. An absolute gem of a read.
A collection like no other.......2003-12-26
Over the past thirteen years, Patricia Cornwell has established herself as the world's leading crime writer. With this collection, we are introduced to Kay Scarpetta, crime fiction's most fascinating protaganist. Three of Cornwell's grittiest and most terrifying novels are rolled into one superior anthology.
Her debut novel, Postmortem, deals with an elusive serial killer who is holding the city of Richmond, Virginia hostage with his nightly endeavors -- breaking into young women's bedrooms, sexually assaulting them, and then strangling them.
Cornwell's follow-up, Body Of Evidence, has a lot to live up to, but doesn't disappoint. A young woman, a struggling writer, is being stalked. One rainy evening, she seemingly invites her killer inside her home. It is up to Scarpetta to put the pieces together as she follows a trail of bread crumbs from the Richmond crime scene to the young author's secret hideaway in Key West. However, it soon becomes glaringly apparent that said killer has set Scarpetta herself in his scopes...
All That Remains, the final volume in this collection, details Scarpetta's frustrating pursuit of a viscious serial killer dubbed "The Couple Killer" by the press because his modus operandi is to slay young couples in isolated, woodland areas. When the most recent victim turns out to be the daughter of a powerful political drug activist, things get personal as Kay discovers that the CIA may be witholding evidence...
Whether you've never read a Scarpetta novel or are a longtime fan interested in adding to your Cornwell collection, this set of enthralling novels is a definite must!
Ah, Scarpetta... truly the best........2001-12-09
I'd have to admit I'm one of those people who buys each new Patricia Cornwell as soon as it comes out, and here are three of the best. If you've read any crime novel featuring a female detective written in the last ten years, you've read a novel that's been influenced by the fabulous Scarpetta. Kay Scarpetta is a forensic pathologist with a genius for solving crime, and Patricia Cornwell is a writer with a genius for bringing the morgue to life. Cornwell's writing is superb when it comes to gory and technical forensic details, and her enviable skill with suspense will leave you checking that you've locked your doors and seriously considering purchasing some kind of semi-automatic weapon.
Scarpetta purists may hold that Postmortem is the best of the bunch, but there's plenty in each of these novels to keep crime fans happy for some time to come. I don't know anyone who's read a Scarpetta novel and hasn't been converted. Postmortem features a seriously scary serial killer and rapist, who's tracked down by a mixture of forensic work, medical knowledge and psychology; in Body of Evidence, Scarpetta is forced to retrace the final days of a murdered writer in the hope of uncovering the truth about her death; and in All That Remains Scarpetta has to deal with political pressure as she attempts to discover the identity of a serial killer who stalks and murders courting couples.
Scarpetta is certainly flawed - difficult, demanding and with an unfortunate proclivity for men who treat her badly, or die horribly, or sometimes both - but this is precisely why she is so endearing. If you're after a great thriller with plenty of forensic detail, go no further than Patricia Cornwell.
Awed and Inspired.......2000-04-14
I have read hundreds of mysteries and none could hold a candleto any book by Patricia Cornwell. Her understanding of PoliceProcedures and Forensic Science not only intrigued me and kept me up many nights reading, but inspired me to go back to school and get my degree in Forensic Science. (I plan to be a Forensic Pathologist!) Every one of her books are not some fifty page, light reading "who-done-it," but a believable, sink-your-teeth-into mystery with a great story line. Go out and get one of her books today. You won't be dissapointed.
A great introduction to Cornwell at a great price!.......1999-11-19
I bought this book not having read any of Patricia Cornwell's books and it was a great introduction. I went on to read everything else she has written. All the three novels were great and I was sorry to have them end so quickly.
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This authoritative reference work describes in detail the more than 400 Palestinian villages that were destroyed or depopulated by Israel in 1948. Little of these once-thriving communities remains: not only have they been erased from the Palestinian landscape, their very names have been removed from contemporary Israeli maps. But to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians living in their diaspora, these villages were home, and continue to be poignantly powerful symbols of their personal and national identity.
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Excellent historical account.......2007-04-02
This book shows the world why there is violence in Palestine today. Because Israel was built on other people's lands, homes, cities, and villages. More than 450 Palestinian cities and villages were ethnically cleansed by the Israeli occupation, and this book goes through each one, telling its story and how the population was forced out violently. Injustice is the cause of all the worlds problems.
a truth many dont want told.......2005-08-15
This is a book that tells the truth about a subject many would rather cover up. It is a voice of truth against a decades long propoganda campaign which wishes to pretend that Palestinians didn't have homes or villages within what is now Israel. Khalidi catalogs hundreds of villages which are now gone. Gone as a result of Israel's extensive efforts after 1948 to erase every trace, with explosives and excavators, of the villages. Even with the extensive catalog of information presented, there are those who are in denial. They start with dishonest works that claim what is now Israel was empty when they arrived. Since it was empty, the villages destroyed were simply empty ruins. Lies build on lies.
The first british count of the population of Palestine after they took over showed around 80,000 jews and around 700,000 who were not Jews. Khalidi shows the reality of those 700,000 people and their lives. And how the evidence of that reality was erased.
Many will be angry that Israeli pseudo-scholars and pseudo-scholarship which has definitively "proved" that what is now Israel was empty before Jewish settlers arrived is not accepted as fact. But they have little to be angry about considering that their scholarship has no crediblity outside of Israel and the US Christian Right. The grim reality as shown by Walid Khalidi in this book is impossible to dismiss because the truth of it is right there on the page. No matter how many books they can find to say that what is now Israel was empty of people, every census and what physical evidence is left proves them wrong.
Khalidi will also by some be said to be ungreatful to the British and the Jewish settlers. Along with the arguments that palestinians didn't exist and their villages were not real, is the sick idea (refuted by the book) that Palestinians were little more than savages whose only possiblity of advancement was by being civilized by europeans. They fail often to understand that slaves don't enjoy the benefits of progress created by their masters. In the end, they can only repeat the official line that these people didn't exist or were shiftless drifters who have no attachment to any land.
Khalidi provides in the book detailed surveys of villages lost in 1948. He has unearthed masses of documentation and photographs. The material shows the existance and life of these villages. What is presented will never be good enough for some critics. All that can be said is that we fortunate that so much survives considering the lengths that Israel went to after 1948 to erase even the rubble of these villages from the face of the earth.
Finally, Khalidi shows with Israeli documents how Israeli policies in 1948 led to the depopulation of the villages. It must always be remembered that Israel could only exist as a democracy after 1948 by driving enough palestinians from their homes during the war. The massacre of civilians
such as Dier Yassein and other policies drove these people from their homes and the borders drawn after the war did not let them come back.
Khalidi's evidence for the obvious, the existance of pre-1948 Palestinians, is so overwhelming that no honest person could deny the reality of what he presents. But the enemies of peace in the middle east will even in spite of all of Khalidi's material deny the truth.
Misleading.......2004-12-03
This book is extremely misleading. In sections respectively labeled "occupation" and "depopulation, he lists and describes 418 villages, implying that in 1948, Israel forced Arabs from their homes and villages at gunpoint. At that time, however, thousands of ruins, abandoned during the Ottoman era, remained dotting Israel's countryside, according to Moshe Brawer's 1994 Israel Affairs review of the work.
Four years before Israel's War of Independence, a detailed study based on British Survey of Palestine maps listed 2,077 abandoned rural villages, hamlets and smaller sites--against only 1,274 inhabited Arab, Jewish and other villages and hamlets, some of them temporary.
Furthermore, Dr. Robinson's 1841 book, Journal of Travels in the Year 1838 and H.B. Tristram's 633-page Land of Israel (1865), detail earthquakes, droughts, conscriptions, onerous taxes, internal wars, thievery, malaria, cholera and other epidemics that depopulated much of Israel long before 1880, when the first wave of Jewish immigration began. It's disturbing that a work touted as a great academic achievement includes none of these facts.
Khalidi also omits the commonality of Ottoman depopulation programs. In Chio (Greece), Damascus, Hasbeiya and Aleppo, non-Muslims were slaughtered in 1822, 1858, 1859 and 1860. In southern Syria (as it was then called), the Turks conscripted all available youths and extorted "annual tax of several piastres for every fruit-tree from the very year it is planted," according to Tristram, even for olive trees that took 40 years to produce fruit. He and Robinson found Israel barren and empty, its villages poor--and frequently abandoned. In Tiberias, "almost exclusively a Jewish town," the Muslim quarter was in 1865 "almost wholly in ruins, having been overthrown in the great earthquake of 1837."
A true academic masterpiece would have at least referred to prior devastation and justified the conclusions made in spite of it. Khalidi fails this test, failing to remark (as well) that Schwobel in 1904 found, against 329 inhabited rural Galilee areas, some 460 ruined villages and hamlets. Finally, Khalidi misses another study, which determined that Ottoman rule brought devastation and abandonment to at least 50% of Hebron area villages and hamlets, 26-27% near Tulkarem and Nablus and 85% in Lower eastern Galilee and the central Jordan Valley.
The missing long-term perspective is bad enough, but equally disappointing is Khalidi's avoidance of the benefits that Arab labor derived from three decades of British administration (1918-48) and Jewish immigration, which together brought law, order, vital services, economic investment and modernization to the land. From 1922 to 1947, Jewish agricultural settlements increased coastal plain citrus groves 971%, to 75,000 acres. No mention of that, or of the masses of workers these groves attracted from Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt and Arabia--according to Arthur Ruppin, Bill Farrell, Justin McCarthy, Yehoshua Porath, Alexander Schlolch, Neville Mandel, Vital Cuinet and official Ottoman data. This is a significant omission since workers lived in temporary shacks on land they didn't own, and in 1948 abandonned them precisely because they were not permanent.
Topping that is the failure to improve upon Arif al-Arif's 1950s historical-political study and personal archives. Alas, Khalidi's long, virulently anti-Israel introduction is followed by 418 sadly inaccurate surveys with only rough sketch-maps and photographs as backup. Although he lists each area's geographical attributes, history, distance from district capital, average elevation, land ownership, use, population and dwellings in 1931 and 1944, the blurred photographs could have been taken almost anywhere, including current-day West Bank villages.
There are also blatant inaccuracies. Khalidi calls Fardisiya and Khirbat al-Buri villages. In 1945, Fardisiya (2.5 kilometres south of Tulkarem) had 20 inhabitants who owned less than 20 acres and four small buildings. This was a village? Furthermore, Fardisyia was not conquered, but was ceded to Israel under the 1949 armistice. For Khirbat al-Burj, 34 kilometres south of Haifa, Khalidi lists no population, but states that residents owned less than 4 acres. Air photos show two stone buildings and some hovels. Again, a village?
In 1948, there were early 1940s British Royal Air Force photos showing sizes and numbers of houses, cultivated lands and villages. Israel supplemented these that year with high quality air photos of most rural areas involved in the war. The British Survey of Palestine included many detailed maps of villages later devastated. Until 1947, village headmen often kept population, economic and special event data in village notebooks. Israeli academics have also contributed substantial scholarship. But Khalidi did not consult any of the available data, including material declassified in the 1980s. He simply labeled these items "not available."
Worse, Khalidi employs the flawed Mandate government Village Statistics 1945--which reflects exaggerations by which headmen enhanced government food rations. He also relies on a Beirut reproduction, whose editor further embellished the initial over-counts. The original categorized land ownership as "Arab, Jewish or others." Beirut editor Sami Hadawi disingenuously shifted all non-Jewish land--including churches, monasteries, institutions and organizations--to Arabs. Khalidi unreservedly repeats this deception, Brawer reports.
And finally, Khalidi omits or grossly misrepresents war-related factors that contributed to 1948 depopulation. He often reproduces portions of Israeli reports--out of context--solely to lay blame on Israel. He nowhere mentions Arab villagers' major war contributions, or the locations of villages relative to their grueling, months-long assault on Israel's roads.
If the evidence was so overwhelming, why couldn't Khalidi obtain first-hand material from villagers who lived through these events?
Overall, a major disappointment.
--Alyssa A. Lappen
Exposes the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine in 1948.......2003-07-15
There is a very good reason why this book received so many 1-star reviews [...]: because it exposes the truth that most Israelis and pro-Zionists wish to hide, forever.
This is history:
step 1: pre-1948 Zionist claim: "there are no people in Palestine"
step 2: 1948 Zionists deliberately expelled 800,000 Palestinians from their homeland
step 3: 1949-1952: Israel systematically destroyed every remnant of 418 Palestinian villages that were depopulated in 1948, in order to erase the evidence.
This monumental book finally presents the evidence, drawn from over 20 sources (including Zionist ones), organized district by district, village by village. It's the evidence Israeli leaders would have hoped been buried forever, so they would never have to face War Crimes Tribunals.
So now their strategy is to post bad reviews for this book here so as to prevent you, potential reader, from seeing that evidence for yourself. Don't close your eyes: see it for yourself, then THINK!
An EXCELLENT reference book.......2003-02-04
A must read for anyone interested in Jewish-Palestinian relations. I think that the information presented was written in a very clear and factual fashion, free from "emotional propoganda" but it would surprise me if anyone could walk away from reading without experiencing either a sense of loss, profound sadness or even outright disbelief.
Regardless of your stance on this issue, the painstaking task of documenting, investigating, cataloging, interviewing, and presenting the tremendous changes within the Palestinian-Israeli borders can be well appreciated.
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7 Titles By Patricial Cornwell - First 7 Kay Scarpetta titles 1 Postmortem 2 Body of Evidence 3 All That Remains 4 Cruel and Unusual 5 The Body Farm 6 From Potter's Field 7 Cause of Death. seven mmpb books.
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- The final months of war in Japan
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- The Final Installment of "Adolf" May Be The Best
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The final months of war in Japan.......2005-02-18
In this book, Adolf Kaufmann, a half German half Japanese teen raised in Japan but educated in Germany returns to Japan. He has been gone for three years and has not been able to contact anyone in Japan for the past two years. He is overjoyed to be reunited with his childhood best-friend Adolf Kamil, a German Jew taking political refuge in Japan. The mood changes quickly, however, since in the past three years non-Jewish Adolf has come to follow the Nazi party beliefs including understanding Mein Kampf.
Non-Jewish Adolf's mission in Germany is to find the documents that show that Hitler has Jewish ancestry. (By now everyone but Adolf realizes that the documents don't mean much and that the war is nearly over.) Adolf has also been assigned to kill a certain Japanese man, who has been hiding the documents. Adolf is shocked to find that his mother has remarried, and to the very man he has been ordered to kill. So that pretty much does it for Adolf's relationships with friends and family back in Japan.
This book follows the Adolfs and Toge, the narrator, through the last few months of WWII and then through their lives after the war, particularly what happens to the two Adolfs. So many minor subplots from other books are resolved here, but won't be distracting if you haven't read other books in the series. This book stands alone well, and will also add more to the story if you have read the other books.
This is a really great amazing series. I recommend it. These are violent books and this one in particular, with a rape, mass executions and plenty of blood gore and violence. So be aware of that and don't give it to a small child to teach them history.
A fitting end to a brilliant series.......2004-06-19
Osamu Tezuka's, "Adolf: 1945 and All that Remains," is the end volume to the epic and sweeping 5 volume 'Adolf' series. While the quality of the series has been excellent throughout, Vol. 5 is truly the hallmark of the series with excellent writing, artwork and the satisfying closure to every single one of the myraid subplots weaved throughout the series.
If you haven't read this series yet do yourself a favor by starting from the beginning and working your way through each of the 4 volumes till you reach this book. Trust me, the journey will be worth it!
The Final Installment of "Adolf" May Be The Best.......1999-02-15
Mere words cannot describe this tragic tale of three men named "Adolf".
The late Osamu Tezuka is brilliant. The artwork is phenomenal. The manga style and the expressions of the characters is unique.
The series is about how World War II effected EVERYONE- from the leaders to ordinary citizens who just want to live. The five books tackle racism, hatred, nationalism, love, family, and duty.
This last book of the series is a culmination of a great work with pop culture historical significance.
This series is similiar to Art Spiegelman's MAUS, but with a different twist. First of all, the art is manga-style (which I personally like better). Also, there are more characters in ADOLF. ADOLF is a tale from the Japanese perspective, while MAUS is a "survivor's tale". But I degress, it was not my intention to compare the two works. If you liked MAUS, you will like ADOLF.
The final installment is very emotional. A fitting end to such a thought provoking and heart-renching series.
A MUST read... a significant piece of cultural work.......1998-07-22
This volume represents the culmination in Tezuka's 5 volume opus. A work which makes connections between the shoah and the bombing of Hiroshima, between racisms of all kinds, it is a breathtaking, tragic, and challenging piece of artistry -- perhaps the best pop culture work on the linked issues of the Holocaust and World War 2.
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Kay Scarpetta Series: Postmortem, Body of Evidence, All That Remains, Cruel and Unusual, The Body Farm, From Potter's Field, Cause of Death, Unnatural Exposure, Point of Origin, Black Notice, The Last Precinct, Blow Fly, Trace, Predator (Set of 14)
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Kay Scarpetta Series, Books 1 - 14; Postmortem, Body of Evidence, All That Remains, Cruel and Unusual, The Body Farm, From Potter's Field, Cause of Death, Unnatural Exposure, Point of Origin, Black Notice, The Last Precinct, Blow Fly, Trace, Predator
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International publishing sensation Patricia Cornwell's legion of readers will welcome this omnibus edition of her third and fourth megabestselling Kay Scarpetta novels, All That Remains and Cruel & Unusual. These two novels, presented here complete and unabridged, helped to confirm Patricia Cornwell's status as queen of the forensic thriller and one of the world's top bestselling authors.
All That Remains
A killer is stalking young lovers. Taking their lives and leaving just a tantalizing clue.
When the bodies of young couples start turning up in remote woodland areas, Dr. Kay Scarpetta's task as Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner is made more difficult by the effects of the elements. Eight times she must write that the cause of death is undetermined.
But when the latest young woman to go missing is the daughter of one of America's most powerful women, Kay also finds herself prey to political pressure and press harassment. The killings must stop. Now.
Scarpetta soon discovers that someone is withholding vital evidence, or even faking it. Meanwhile, a cunning sadistic killer is still at large.
Cruel & Unusual
At 11:05 one December evening in Richmond, Virginia, convicted murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell is pronounced dead in the electric chair. At the morgue, Dr. Kay Scarpetta has been waiting for Waddell's body. Preparing to perform a postmortem before the subject is dead is a strange feeling for Scarpetta, but she has been here before. And Waddell's death is not the only newsworthy event on this freezing night: the grotesquely wounded body of a young boy is found propped against a garbage Dumpster. To Scarpetta, the two cases seem unrelated, until she recalls that the body of Waddell's victim had been arranged in a strikingly similar position.
Was Waddell innocent? Is someone else out there, who may attack again?
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Bruce Brooks
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Cousins conspire to circumvent state burial laws when their beloved aunt dies of AIDS, and come up with a fiendishly clever plan to keep her out of a pauper's grave.
A slick teen takes his very unhip cousin under his wing -- to make a man of him -- after reluctantly making a promise to his dying uncle to do so, and finds out a lot about being true to oneself in the meantime.
A trio of golfers must take on a fourth player -- a girl, no less -- who surprises them by having a fabulous drive, despite the fact that she refuses to take off her backpack. But that doesn't begin to match their shock when they find out what her backpack contains. Can three strangers help her let go of her past? Is there magic in a foursome?
Astonishing, shocking, and mesmerizing, each story in this collection is singular unto itself, but they all work together in the exploration of how people react to tragedy when it strikes...and how they deal with what's left behind. A daring, thought-provoking collection as only two-time Newbery Honor award-winner Bruce Brooks could write it.
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A very intense book .......2006-11-27
All That Remains
Bruce Brooks
Short Stories
All That Remains is a trio of short stories. The stories don't have the same characters, but they all have to do with dealing with grief. Each story tells the story of people who lost someone close to their heart. The book also talks about getting discriminated because of sexual orientation, disabilities, "coolness," and gender.
In the first story the two cousins, Marie and Johnny. They have a homosexual aunt, Judith died of AIDS. The two kids go back to Judith's very red-neck town. The town has a lot of people that were very against gay and lesbian relationships. The kids and Judith's lover have to deal with Judith's wishes and the regulations with barring someone with AIDS. The two Cousins go through many adventures trying to fallow their aunt's wishes, and not getting caught. Can the three of them pull it off?
The second story is about a boy names Hank, and his cousin Bobby. Bobby's father just died, and now he is living on his own. Before Bobby's father died he told Hank that he wanted Bobby to learn how to do some of the "cool" things that Hank does. Hank being the cool kid on the block helps Bobby become more popular. Even though Hank is popular and "cool," he risks his reputation to help out his cousin. Hank tries his best to make Bobby cooler. He follow is dead uncle's wishes and teaches him to skateboard, play ice hokey and play the guitar. Bobby carries on some of these hobbies, finding him self hurt every time. Can Hank help Bobby and keep his good reputation? Is Bobby just doing Hank's hobbies because his father wanted him to?
The last story is about at group of three golfer boys who take in another golfer, who is a girl. The girl, Isobel has a great drive; despite the fact that she won't take off her backpack. The boys are in shock when they find out what Isobel carries in her backpack; for what sits in her pack is the story of her past. Can the boys treat her the same after knowing what she caries around? Can Isobel become part of the group even with her differences?
I would give this book three stars out of 5. I would rate is so low because I thought the book wasn't very interesting, and it rambled on about topic that had no part in the plot. Some of the characters I thought weren't very believable, and were had to relate to. I think that this book has a great plot that would be very interesting if the writing and more compelling. I think that the writer, Bruce Brook's style of writing is mediocre; it's nothing that makes you want to read on. Some of Bruce Brook's writing makes no sense at all, making the book hard to read, and even more boring. The book is a light read, but takes awhile to read because of the writing style. One of the stories was very good, and it made sense and it wasn't that hard to read. I would recommend this book to people that like really intense books. If you also like novellas, this is the book for you.
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