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Why Buy A The Overseer by Jonathan Rabb?
The most original and acclaimed thriller of the year…

Rabb, who has a masters degree in political theory from Columbia, has fashioned a slick and readable thriller from unusual material. At the center is a political treatise rumored to outline a plan for world domination. Written by a 16th-century monk named Eisenreich, this manuscript was so explosive that the Pope supposedly had Eisenreich killed in order to suppress it. But the work…somehow survived, and it has fallen into the hands of a ruthless group who plan to use it to subject the world to their control…–Library Journal

A stunning accomplishment.–Larry Bond

Intelligent and skillful.–The Washington Post Book World

* The authors academic background adds rich flavor and authenticity to this historical-political thriller

* A smooth blend of Ian Fleming and Umberto Eco (Lorenzo Carcaterra)

Dazzling plot twists…highly sophisticated and diverting…superior entertainment. Put it in your beach bag.–The Washington Post Book World

Over 52 Five Star Customer Reviews On Amazon!

Love it.
I just have to say I couldn’t put it down. A well written book with just enough twists to keep it interesting from start to finish!

Intriguing
This is not just a novel to enjoy but also something to think about. A very powerful group of people, with the objective of build a new society create chaos in all levels of the society throughout economic, political, social and cultural crisis. As I said before, this is a novel to think about because this “master plan” that Mr. Rabb gave us in his “Eisenreich Manuscript” have being applied in many of the Third World Countries in some way destroying national economies, shaking societies and classes, creating political and religious turmoils and tensions, etc. Watch out, it most be true.

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Bodies Weve Buried Inside the National Forensic Academy the Worlds Top CSI TrainingSchool by Amy Welch – Save 10% Today!

Why Buy A Bodies Weve Buried Inside the National Forensic Academy the Worlds Top CSI TrainingSchool by Amy Welch?
Two National Forensic Science Institute administrators invite readers into what the Washington Post calls the Harvard of hellish violence-the only hands-on CSI school of its kind where students are trained in burial recovery with actual human remains. With exclusive access to a world normally off-limits to the public, this is the first book to go behind the scenes of the ten-week course that discloses the uncensored realities of burial exhumations and the fascinating art of forensic investigation.

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Over 22 Five Star Customer Reviews On Amazon!

Very informative
I was surprised to see nobody had reviewed this book yet. I read it over a year ago but I remember it being a good jack of all trades sort of primer. A chapter on photography, chapter on fires, etc. Lot of new stuff not in other books I had read. Really good.

Complete Guide for Crime Scene Investigating
This book is amazing. I first read it from the library, but found it so valuable, that I ordered it for my library. It not only covers all aspects of Crime Scene Investigation, but also includes alternate methods of collecting evidence when difficulties arise. A must have for any Crime Scene Investigator, both current and future.

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Whats Eating Gilbert Grape by Peter Hedges – Save 10% Today!

Why Buy A Whats Eating Gilbert Grape by Peter Hedges?

Just about everything in Endora, Iowa (pop. 1,091 and dwindling) is eating Gilbert Grape, a twenty-four-year-old grocery clerk who dreams only of leaving. His enormous mother, once the town sweetheart, has been eating nonstop ever since her husbands suicide, and the floor beneath her TV chair is threatening to cave in. Gilberts long-suffering older sister, Amy, still mourns the death of Elvis, and his knockout younger sister has become hooked on makeup, boys, and Jesus — in that order. But the biggest event on the horizon for all the Grapes is the eighteenth birthday of Gilberts younger brother, Arnie, who is a living miracle just for having survived so long. As the Grapes gather in Endora, a mysterious beauty glides through town on a bicycle and rides circles around Gilbert, until he begins to see a new vision of his family and himself….

With this wry portrait of small-town Iowa — and a young mans life at the crossroads — Peter Hedges created a classic American novel charged with sardonic intelligence (Washington Post Book World).

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Over 52 Five Star Customer Reviews On Amazon!

Truly captivating
I am fond of reading novels and What’s Eating Gilbert Grape is certainly a good read.

Very good book, read it before
Glad I found my OLD copy because this particular one never arrived. So…how’s about a REFUND?

Courtesy of Mother Daughter Book Club.com
The characters in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape by Peter Hedges are gritty and flawed and repulsive and totally engaging as well as entirely believable. It’s a great study of a young man seeking meaning for his life and trying to decide when he can put his own needs before the needs of a very dysfunctional family.

Gilbert’s day-to-day life in small-town Iowa is mind-numbingly realistic, and you can understand both his frustrations at the life he’s living and the limitations that keep him living it. As long as he doesn’t think too much about his situation or analyze his prospects for the future, life can go on as before.

But when a girl who is very different from anyone else Gilbert knows arrives on the scene, he begins to question everything. This is a great book to read in a mother-daughter book club of girls in 11th grade up or an adult book club and then to watch the movie. Comparing and contrasting the two is very interesting, particularly since author Peter Hedges also wrote the screenplay.

This book caused quite a stir in my hometown…
“What’s Eating Gilbert Grape” by Peter Hedges has long been popular with my peers while we were attending high school in the late 1990’s. For some inexplicable reason, this book slipped by me in those years. Recently, though, a number of parents in the community of Carroll, Iowa (pop. ~10,000) declared the book ‘inappropiate’ mostly due to the sexual references in the book. With all the sudden publicity, my natural reaction was to read it for myself (many persons around me followed suit.)

Upon reading the novel, I finally discovered why this book connected with the rural youth that I grew up with. The characters in the book are easy to relate to: there are devout Christians with makeup caked on their faces, adulterers, handicapped persons that garner the sympathy of everyone, underage women that the men fantasize over, small business owners facing encroachment by corporate America, and the native who got out of town and thus became a smashing success. The hero, Gilbert Grape, desperately wants to leave his seemingly boring small town of Endora, Iowa, just as so many small-town kids dream of doing. Overall, it is funny and dark but a great coming of age story.

The passages that caused the great controversy in my own hometown were over-exaggerated. There are references to oral sex, masturbation, adultery, and promiscuity in the book; but these make the character seem more tangible and pale in the overall plot and message of the book. Many parents that deemed the book unfit for their teens admitted that they read only select lines. However, those who have read the whole book tend to look beyond those few lines and agree that Hedges’ novel is a work of literature with a valuable message, and I could not agree more.

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What Einstein Didnt Know Scientific Answers to Everyday Questions by Robert Wolke – Save 32% Today!

Why Buy A What Einstein Didnt Know Scientific Answers to Everyday Questions by Robert Wolke?
A Washington Post columnist offers a fun, fascinating guide to everyday science for those who never wore a slide rule or a pocket protector.

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Awesome book for regular folks to exercise their brains!
if you want to use your brain for more than figuring out how to cut corners when cleaning the house…this is an awesome book. I am still slowly reading it, but I”m about 3/4 thru and enjoying every minute! It’s all about how stuff works – mostly based on chemistry. But like, why do ice cubes float? Why does it feel warmer outside when it starts snowing? How does salt melt ice outside? Etc. (they aren’t all about cold stuff…just what popped into my head first). I have to read it slowly to let it penetrate my mommy brain (this review is by Robert’s wife, Kathy). But it is written for laypersons and for enjoyment. Has bar bets and all!

Someone said you won’t enjoy if you have more than high school chem and physics…well, there are a heck of a lot of us adults that fit that description!!! I loved chemistry in high school but did not take it in college. We had a poor physics teacher in high school so I have never taken physics at all. So for me, the book is perfect – high school was 15 years ago and I barely remember chemistry. This book is like seeing an old acquaintance in the newspaper…I recognize the terms, but have to relearn it all over again!

Anyway, I am enjoying it…it is a nice thinking book. Not too much thinking, but enough to make me feel like I am learning. And gives me something to talk about!

I highly recommend it and am planning to get more of R. Wolke’s books!

Great books for everyday knowledge
It is winter time in Boston and since I was a kid, I was always curious why people sprinkle salts during the snow. I asked my dad and he told me, it was so “we can walk better with the salt providing some texture on the ground.” Well, after reading this book, I now know why my dad is terrible in science. LOL. This book brings up a lot of day-to-day things that we in the Western World take for granted. I admit that I have a deeper appreciation for science and how creative the mind can be. Now I know more about inner working of the events around me. More than that, I feel like I’m smarter, or at least more knowledgeable. Wow. If a book can have that type of impact on me, I have to give it 5 stars.

Good for kids of all ages
I bought this book for my daughter (12 years), the Indonesian Language version one, and i read it too. It is a good book that explain everyday science in a very easy language. I always believe the real test of good teaching is being able to expain complex fenomena in a simple and interesting way.

Some materials are a bit too-basic if you already know a lot, so i think this books suits teenager and good for enticing their curiosity to see everyday happenings in a deeper way. To teach kids how to think more and get them interested in life. One good alternative to the world of “game boy” and all the bell n wistles of computer games and MTV.

understandable explanations to everyday phenomena
Scientests may find Wolke’s explanations too simple (that’s why he has a nitpicker’s section), but for those who are not trained in technical or scientific fields, this books is just the thing. Wolke does an excellent job of explaining science conceptually, and he might just raise the curiousity of a few non-scientists that they may want to read more widely. I would highly recommend his two books on kitchen science.

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The Writing Life Writers On How They Think And Work by Marie Arana – Save 22% Today!

Why Buy A The Writing Life Writers On How They Think And Work by Marie Arana?
A dazzling collection of essays in which todays most celebrated writers explore their personal relationships with the literary life.

Featuring a gathering of more than fifty of contemporary literatures finest voices, this volume will enchant, move, and inspire readers with its tales of The Writing Life. In it, authors divulge professional secrets: how they first discovered they were writers, how they work, how they deal with the myriad frustrations and delights a writers life affords. Culled from ten years of the distinguished Washington Post column of the same name, The Writing Life highlights an eclectic group of luminaries who have wildly varied stories to tell, but who share this singularly beguiling career. Here are their pleasures as well as their peeves; revelations of their deepest fears; dramas of triumphs and failures; insights into the demands and rewards.

Each piece is accompanied by a brief and vivid biography of the writer by Washington Post Book World editor Marie Arana who also provides an introduction to the collection. The result is a rare view from the inside: a close examination of writers concerns about the creative process and the place of literature in America. For anyone interested in the making of fiction and nonfiction, here is a fascinating vantage on the writers world–an indispensable guide to the craft.

Over 8 Five Star Customer Reviews On Amazon!

Great Anthology of Writers…
Over the years, I’ve read ‘The Writing Life’ segment found in many a Washington Post “Book World” section. Last spring, a writing instructor assigned Arana’s collection of these articles for our outside class reading. I was pleased to find many of the articles I had previously enjoyed plus plenty I had not read combined in one volume, thus allowing me to purge the accordian file folder where I store such items.

Arana has selected some of the best pieces for her volume, and prefaced each with a short introduction of the author. In some cases I reread segments by favorite authors, and in other cases I had never read the author.

One author I’ve been meaning to try is Barbara Mertz. Haven’t heard of her? She writes under the pen name Elizabeth Peters, and is the author of the the tales of the exploits of Amelia Peabody-Emerson, archeologist and sleuth. Now, I had thought about reading Peters, but had not done so because I have been trying to curb a hopeless addiction to mysteries and force myself to read things that “improved my mind.” Peters, i.e. Mertz, says at age 60, she figures her mind “is about as good as it’s going to get” and that statement and others she wrote made me laugh. Being from a long line of folks suffering from a bad case of the “Protestant ethic” I’ve always needed permission to have fun, and now that I am 63 I have it.

I read my first Peters novel (reviewed elsewhere) and ordered 6-7 more. Is this frivoluous, you bet. Will I keep it up, Hopefully!!

Useful.
As a writing major, (non-fiction, U of Memphis), I find myself searching out the lives of writers as much as exploring their work. We writers are geared that way. This book is essentially helpful if you are towards the beginning of your career and are very curious about how other writers work. It’s a good book to put in the stack on your bedside table and to read a piece every once in a while. I especially liked the entries by Ray Bradbury (who gets up at 3:30 in the morning, writes, laughs at it, and then goes back to bed) and David McCullough (read as much as he could of what John Adams read. Said it was impossible to read it all). It lends validity to the ideas you have of how best you write–alone? In a cafe? Longhand? With a typewriter? In your mother’s basement with the lights out and night vision goggles? And in the establishment of a writing career, that’s no small thing.

So if you’re an older writer, I’d pass. But younger writers, grab hold, and mine it for what it’s worth to learn about your own process.

Get the Story Behind the Writer
This is an excellent compilation of writers and a bit of their story. I know that other reviewer’s recommended this book for writers, but Ido not consider myself a writer in professional terms, and I still found it facinating.

Arana provides a backhistory of each writer introducing them, and then each author tells some aspect of how they handle the writing life. I enjoy being able to get “behind the scenes” and understand how a writer approaches their day…where they write, do they use a computer, etc. As she says in her introduction, she invited “seasoned writers to mull the craft” of their writing.

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