A Brief Introduction to Fluid Mechanics

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Now readers can quickly learn the basic concepts and principles of modern fluid mechanics with this concise book. It clearly presents basic analysis techniques while also addressing practical concerns and applications, such as pipe flow, open-channel flow, flow measurement, and drag and lift. The fourth edition also integrates detailed diagrams, examples and problems throughout the pages in order to emphasize the practical application of the principles.

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Super companion text for fluid mechanics courses!
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A Brief Introduction to Fluid Mechanics
Donald F. Young , Bruce R. Munson , and Theodore H. Okiishi
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Concise and focused-these are the two guiding principles of Young, Munson, and Okiishi's Third Edition of A Brief Introduction to Fluid Mechanics.

The authors clearly present basic analysis techniques and address practical concerns and applications, such as pipe flow, open-channel flow, flow measurement, and drag and lift. Homework problems in every chapter-including open-ended problems, problems based on the CD-ROM videos, laboratory problems, and computer problems-emphasize the practical application of principles. More than 100 worked examples provide detailed solutions to a variety of problems.

The Third Edition offers several new features and enhancements, including:

A variety of new simple figures in the margins that will help you visualize the concepts described in the text.
Chapter Summary and Study Guide sections at the end of each chapter that will help you assess your understanding of the material.
Simplified presentation of the Reynolds transport theorem.
New homework problems added to every chapter.
Highlighted key works in each chapter.

Experience fluid flow phenomena in action on a new CD-ROM! The Fluid Mechanics Phenomena CD-ROM packaged with this text presents:

75 short video segments that illustrate various aspects of fluid mechanics
30 extended laboratory-type problems
Actual experimental data for simple experiments in an Excel format
168 review problems.

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Super companion text for fluid mechanics courses!.......2006-04-17

Although brief (as the name of the text implies), I have found that this is a wonderful companion text for any fluid mechanics course. Such courses are often taught during the upper level undergrad or entry level grad portions of the C.Eng., Hydrology, M.Eng., and Env.Eng. programs. The selling point in this text is the detail of the diagrams and examples. This alone should interest students. These examples are really good and the level of detail is thorough so that one can easliy apply concepts from problem to problem. My only complaint is minimal. The complaint is that the text is indeed brief and as such, sometimes the wording and explanation suffers. Aside from that, I highly recommend this text as a companion to other texts used in fluid mechancs courses.

Great first text.......2005-01-21

This was the book used for my first course in fluid mechanics and it was great. The text is easy to understand and follow. Example problems are done out fully. The material in the book is not in-depth enough to make it a great reference, but as far as instruction goes, this book is superb. Another great part of this book is that it is not as expensive as other texts. A new copy of the second edition was less than $40 at the campus bookstore.

A note to instructors, the solution manual (which is also excellent) is readily available online - or at least it used to be.

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A Brief Introduction to Fluid Mechanics, Student Solution Manual
Donald F. Young , Bruce R. Munson , and Theodore H. Okiishi
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A variety of new simple figures in the margins that will help you visualize the concepts described in the text.
Chapter Summary and Study Guide sections at the end of each chapter that will help you assess your understanding of the material.
Simplified presentation of the Reynolds transport theorem.
New homework problems added to every chapter.
Highlighted key works in each chapter.

Experience fluid flow phenomena in action on a new CD-ROM! The Fluid Mechanics Phenomena CD-ROM packaged with this text presents:

75 short video segments that illustrate various aspects of fluid mechanics
30 extended laboratory-type problems
Actual experimental data for simple experiments in an Excel format
168 review problems.

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A Brief Introduction to Fluid Mechanics, Student Solutions Manual
Donald F. Young , Bruce R. Munson , Theodore H. Okiishi , and Wade W. Huebsch
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Based on the authors' highly successful text Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics, Brief Introduction to Fluid Mechanics, 3/e is a streamlined text, covering the basic concepts and principles of fluid mechanics in a modern style. The text clearly presents basic analysis techniques and addresses practical concerns and applications, such as pipe flow, open-channel flow, flow measurement, and drag and lift. Homework problems in every chapter - including open-ended problems, problems based on the CD-ROM videos, laboratory problems, and computer problems - emphasize the practical application of principles. More than 100 worked examples provide detailed solutions to a variety of problems.

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Anita Blake, the tough, sexy vampire executioner, zombie animator, and police consultant for preternatural crimes in St. Louis, hunts monsters in New Mexico in the ninth book of Laurell K. Hamilton's excellent series. Edward, Anita's mentor in slaying, asks Anita to return the favor that she has owed him since she killed a backup he brought in to protect her. He needs Anita's preternatural expertise as well as her firepower. Something is skinning and mutilating a few of its chosen victims, and dismembering others. Edward has no idea what creature could be responsible for such heinous crimes.

Summoning Anita has its downside for Edward, since it means letting her onto his turf. Anita is surprised to find that this normally aggressive man has a personal life, and shocked by his ability to be entirely different from the stone cold killer she's known. She also has problems with the cop in charge in Albuquerque, who believes her powers must be evil, and with the other backups Edward has brought in. Most of all, she has to deal with her own vulnerability--she's tried to shut down her ties to her vampire and werewolf lovers and go it alone, but it turns out to be harder than she thought.

Anita's usual supporting cast is missing, and she's taking time out from her complex love life, but there's plenty of bloody action, vampires, werewolves, and Aztec ritual. Plus a lot more about Edward. Fans will find this installment similar to the earlier books in the series, particularly The Laughing Corpse. --Nona Vero.

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There are a lot of monsters in Anita Blake's life. And some of them are human. One such individual is the man she calls Edward, a bounty hunter who specializes in the preternatural. He calls her to help him hunt down the greatest evil she has ever encountered. Something that kills and maims and vanishes into the night. Something Anita will have to face alone...

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"In Obsidian Butterfly, Laurell K. Hamilton delivers an erotic, demonic thrill ride. Her sexy, edgy, wickedly ironic style sweeps the reader into her unique world and delivers red-hot entertainment. Hamilton's marvelous storytelling can be summed up in three words: Over the top. She blends the genres of romance, horror and adventure with stunning panache. Great fun!"-- Jayne Ann Krentz

"Hamilton has endowed her heroine with a charming mix of male bravado, feminine guile, and self-deprecating humor."-- Publishers Weekly

"Ms. Hamilton's intriguing blend of fantasy, mystery, and a touch of romance is great fun indeed."-- Romantic Times

"Hamilton takes her world by the teeth and runs with it, devising a whipcrack adventure that moves like the wind, grips you by the throat and doesn't let go."-- Locus

"Mayhem, madness, old spells and older vampires. And Anita Blake at the center of it, struggling to stay on top...perfect!"-- The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

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"In Obsidian Butterfly, Laurell K. Hamilton delivers an erotic, demonic thrill ride. Her sexy, edgy, wickedly ironic style sweeps the reader into her unique world and delivers red-hot entertainment. Hamilton's marvelous storytelling can be summed up in three words: Over the top. She blends the genres of romance, horror and adventure with stunning panache. Great fun!" -- Jayne Anne Krentz Whenever the phone rings before dawn something big is probably up, and the fact that Anita Blake has been up all night dealing with zombies doesn't make this call an exception. "Ted Forrester needs backup from Anita Blake, Vampire executioner," Edward tells her, using the pseudonym he keeps for those rare times when he needs a legal identity. And she owes him a favor. So by noon she's on a plane to Santa Fe, sun-drenched town of wealthy retirees, where in the last two weeks twelve people have been murdered. The dead ones had it easy; other victims have been completely flayed, but kept horribly alive by magic. Seeing them in the hospital, Anita feels uncharacteristically shaken. Edward's "Ted Forrester" identity has her nearly as spooked as the crimes: He's working with the local police, courting a likable widow with two kids, and generally making like a good ol' boy. Anita knows the real nature he's hiding beneath his mask of normality--and she finds "Ted" perhaps more frightening than Edward. But she must put aside her fear to help Edward hunt down the greatest evil she has ever encountered. It's ancient and devious--and, in the end, she will have to face it alone.

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The last book in the serries worth reading.......2007-09-25

This really was the last book in the Anita Blake series worth the effort before it went into decline of the vampire porn it became. This would have been a great place to end the series.

The series up to this point has read like pulp detective stories but the bad guys are werewolves and vampires. They are legal in America now but Anita is the official state executioner for when these beasties get out of hand.

This book takes her out of that world as her sometime contact Edward, no last name, calls in a favor and says he needs her help out in New Mexico. The baddies fear Antia as "the executioner" but to them Edward is "death." What can be so bad the Death needs back up?

What follows are violated graves, a millenia old, delusional vampire who believes she's an Aztec goddess, gangsters, victims violently dismemebered and a normal human named Olaf who scares antia in a way most vampires and werewolves don't, and he's her teammate!

In this book Hamilton rips her character out of her comfort zone and sets her on the road without the usual cast of supporting characters that have become so well known over the earlier books. This could have been a real problem if the support system was a crutch for the lead character but Hamilton proves her talent as a writer by letting it soar.

Super Reader.......2007-08-26

This is a welcome change from all the weres*x angst and the vamps*x angst from the previous couple of books. You can easily point out the reason for this, too. Edward. Yep, Edward is back, so some monster hunting is to be done.

She travels to New Mexico to look at the goings on at a club there.

new faces, new places.......2007-08-23

Assasin Edward has called in his favor, taking Anita to New Mexico to face down a couple new and scary baddies. This is an excellent book, like all of the Anita Hunter novels, a lot going on in her head that takes a bit away from the story, but other than that, its really good.

It introduces two majorly scary monsters, Obsidian Butterfly, an Aztec Goddess vampire, and Olaf. Olaf is proof that the human monsters give the preternatural monsters a run for their money in this series. I think we'll be seeing more of him.

Edward's private life is a bit weird, and very unexpected. Frankly, Ted creeps me out more than Edward ever has.

The Last of the Good Books.......2007-08-07

In my opinion, "Blue Moon" was the beginning of the end of the series, and "Obsidian Butterfly" IS the end. They are both fairly good books, but here is where the "rules" of Anita Blake begin flying out the window (the books that follow have little in common with what has come before).

In OB, I liked that AB was out of her element ... that, excepting Edward, she had no familiar background characters to fall back on.

This read introduces a new, insane (aren't they all?) vampire, Itzpapalotl aka Obsidian Butterfly. Very powerful and very deluded.

There's Edward and his Merry Men: Olaf (the psycho killer) and Bernardo (the stud, whose presence in the story NEVER makes sense), Edward's gal Donna, and her two kids (kids???). And, of course, graphic mutilation and murder scenes wrapped up in a nice little mystery.

There's Anita's new love interest Detective Ramirez (one of Anita's shortest relationships to date), Agent Bradley returns for a cameo, and Anita meets a fellow practitioner, Nicky.

Nicandro Baco, necromancer, also seems a bit of an afterthought throw-in like Bernardo. Sorta of a, I really need something to happen here, let's have AB talk shop with someone. He is pieced into the story, but his background and responses just don't jive.

What else doesn't jive? Exchanges with: Riker and crew, the Red Woman's Husband, and Los Lobos clan. Everything seems slightly off kilter.

One of the things I had always liked about AB is that her life continues off page. The characters will discuss something that never happened "on screen" so to speak, but the reader gets the gist of the conversation. Some of the character arcs in OB seem more like two or three story lines were condensed into one leaving important information out and leaving odd/weird references in.

LKH has done this in other books, but not so heavily. I would guess an editor was not much involved.

On the whole, I did enjoy the book. It will go on my keeper shelf as my final book in the Anita Blake series. RIP

Perhaps my favorite novels in the entire series.......2007-08-01

This is something of a joint review. I recently finished two novels in the Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton: OBSIDIAN BUTTERFLY and NARCISSUS IN CHAINS. These represent respectively, in my opinion, perhaps the best and the worst novel in the sequence and highlights both Hamilton's strengths and many weaknesses as a writer. By approaching why I think the earlier novel is quite good and why the latter is so dreadful hope to get at the reasons I've had such a love-hate relationship with the Anita Blake series.

There is something of a formula in the Anita Blake novels: the less sex, the better the book. I'm hardly a prude and sexual content in a novel certainly doesn't bother me. I'm not a home schooler type who fears that any content with sexual matters will corrupt the soul and send one to hell. But neither do I subscribe to the fallacy that writing about sex makes for a better novel. The philosopher Wittgenstein once wrote that raisins make for a better cake, but that didn't mean that too many raisins made a better cake. On sexual matters everyone is going to have their own idea of what constitutes good or bad, interesting or uninteresting sex. In my humble opinion, few writers deal with sex less ably than does Ms. Hamilton. Much of the time when she writes of sex I'm put in mind of the covers those romance novels for which Fabio posed for covers. The passages in her novels that deal with sex are among the most cringe-worthy that I have ever encountered and I often find myself skipping entire paragraphs or pages or groups of pages to escape her libidinously challenged characters. And from what I read in the reviews of her books by other readers, I don't appear to be alone in this. In fact, I seem to be a part of a solid majority.

OBSIDIAN BUTTERFLY has less sex than almost any of the Anita Blake books apart from some of the very early ones. I don't think it is a coincidence that it is perhaps her best book. Because there is so little sex and so little of the horrid love triangle between her and Jean-Claude (my nominee for one the worst characters in fiction) and Richard (can I have two nominees?). I have read the Anita Blake novels because I enjoy the alternative universe that Hamilton has created with vampires, werewolves, fairies, and other supernatural entities living in civil society alongside nonempowered human beings. In reading the books I want that world explored. Instead, we get way too much laboring over poor Anita's sex life. Who gives a flip! A lot of sex does not make these books interesting. The alternative universe I described above is what makes these books fun.

OBSIDIAN BUTTERFLY is great because we focus on a number of characters--some over the top admittedly--with whom Anita is not sexually involved. This forces Hamilton to focus on the world she has created. Anita goes to New Mexico to help her associate Edward solve a series of bizarre murders. The action takes place during a time during which Anita is spending time away from both Richard and Jean-Claude (if only she had left both for good!). Apart from Edward we meet none of the characters who have become fixtures in the previous novels. The action is great, the story compelling, and the situation described is unique and fascinating.

Unfortunately, Hamilton seems to have failed to learn the lessons OBSIDIAN BUTTERFLY should have taught her. Instead, in NARCISSUS IN CHAINS she reverts to the increasing sexuality that afflicted BLUE MOON and earlier books. I read OBSIDIAN BUTTERFLY in three or four days. It took me nearly a month to read NARCISSUS IN CHAINS and even then I toyed with the idea of quitting the entire series. I am something of a completist and if I read one book in a series I usually like to read all. But after this most recent clunker I may join those other Anita Blake readers who found this to be the final straw. Instead of keeping the sex minimal as in OBSIDIAN BUTTERFLY, she ratcheted up the sex to a degree unknown in any previous novel in the series. There were chapters in this book that I found to be close to unreadable there was so much poorly written sex. As bad as Anne Rice is writing about sex (unless you happen to be a sadomasochist), Hamilton is worse.

But sex isn't the only reason Hamilton is such a terrible writer. She violates one of the most important rules of writing: she constantly puts at the heart of her books incoherent, incomprehensible concepts. For comparison, there is a deeply flawed book by the Sci-fi novelist Robert Heinlein entitled STRANGERS IN A STRANGE LAND. The flaw lies in the fact that a central character, a Martian, is supposed to be deep and wise and insightful, all of which others can only recognize if they can speak Martian. But since the reader cannot speak Martian, we have to accept the testimony of the characters that this character truly is wise and sage. In the same way, we are supposed to accept Hamilton's assumption that "power" can be used in the vague, sloppy, and absurd way that she employs it and still have it refer to something rather than nothing. Her characters are perpetually sensing the power of other characters. Power paralyzes, intimidates, inspires, terrorizes, and afflicts her characters. But her concept of "power" puts me in mind of another philosopher, Gilbert Ryle and his famous essay "Systematically Misleading Expressions." Every sentence in which she employs the concept "power" is a sentence that does no real work because there is nothing in human experience to which her concept of "power" can denote. It is a nonsense word as she employs it and all she can do is concoct more and more nonsense. I find every passage in which one character feels the "power" of another to be infuriating, because we are just supposed to take her word for it that such a thing is possible. One reason that I find BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER so marvelous is that Joss Whedon and his writers never have to leave the kind of existence that we normal human beings experience to tell any of his stories. Yes, he has vampires and monsters, but he never introduces vague and unintelligible ideas like "power." He would be ashamed to do so.

Up to a hundred pages from the end of NARCISSUS IN CHAINS I was convinced that it was going to be my last Anita Blake novel. Luckily, those last hundred pages reminded me of why I continued in the series to begin with. They were exciting, suspenseful, and thrilling, everything the first five hundred pages of the novel were not. I'll try one more novel, but at this point I'm so tired of the horrid tangle of over-sexualized relationships that Hamilton has concocted that it won't take much for me to quit for good. In reading the various reviews others have written here I wonder if she has misread her audience. Perhaps she thinks fans really love the sex and that is why they read the books. Perhaps I am wrong. Perhaps there are legions of readers who think the sex is the highpoint. I don't discount the possibility. I find AMERICAN IDOL to be almost inconceivably boring, so obviously I'm not always a good judge as to what most people like. But for my part, I'd love to see more books in the Anita Blake series like OBSIDIAN BUTTERFLY and fewer like NARCUSSUS IN CHAINS.

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The fourth hardback collection of Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novels
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Nightshade Tavern (Obsidian Butterfly & Narcissus in Chains)

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Omnibus edition with both Obsidian Butterfly and Narcissus in Chains.

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The fourth hardback collection of Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novels.......2006-06-13

"Nightshade Tavern" is the fourth hardcover collection of multiple Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novels by Laurell K. Hamilton. Previously we had "Club Vampyre," which collected "Guilty Pleasures," "The Laughing Corpse," and "Circus of the Damned"; "The Midnight Cafe" bought together "The Lunatic Cafe," "Bloody Bones," and "The Killing Dance"; while "Black Moon Inn" combined "Burnt Offerings" and Blue Moon" and constituted a shift in these reprints from 3-in-1 to 2-in-1, which is more to our liking. The two novels published together this time are the ninth and tenth in the Anita Blake series, "Obsidian Butterfly" and "Narcissus in Chains," and from the perspective of today, as we await the fourteenth novel in the series, it becomes clear that there is a significant break between the two novels included here. Suffice it to say that many fans of the series consider the first of these efforts to be the last great, or even really good, Anita Blake novel. Consequently, this might be as far as some readers will go, but they are certainly encouraged to progress to this point.

"Obsidian Butterfly" was the long-awaited Anita Blake novel in which Edward the Bounty Hunter finally calls in the favor our heroine owes him for his services back in "The Killing Dance." So Anita heads to New Mexico, where something is out ripping the bodies of some people apart while removing all the skin from others. Whatever type of monster this might be, it is something so bad that even Edward is spooked. Anita is spooked because Edwards, in his cover identity as "Ted," has a girlfriend who has two children. If all this was not troubling enough throw into the mix the two other backups Edward has enlisted, Olaf, the serial-rapist who keeps threatening Anita, and Bernardo, who keeps trying to hit on her, as does Ramirez, a local cop. Oh, and did I mention she has been celibate for months? This title around the title refers to both a bar and the English name of Itzpapalotl, the vampire Master of the City, which serves to indicate that whatever it is that is out there has something to do with Aztec mythology. One again, Anita Blake, vampire hunter/animator/necromancer has her hands full.

Laurell K. Hamilton is perhaps the finest writer of horror stories around as in book after book in this series she comes up with gruesome scenes that match the best you can find in Stephen King or Clive Barker. In "Obsidian Butterfly" this comes when the last of a group of flesh-eating zombies on a killing spree in a hospital makes its way into the nursery. The main problem with the Anita Blake series, as others have pointed out, is that there is a sense in which things keep repeating themselves as our heroine mouths off to the wrong people, complains about her love life, and keeps calling herself a monster as her personal body count continues to rise. However, the basic mystery here and all its various involved sub-plots are combined in a compelling narrative that overwhelms the problems with characterization. One thing I especially liked about this ninth novel in the series is that yet another unknown aspect of Anita's power did not make itself known at the key moment. In fact, given some of the climaxes of the previous volumes, there is a simple elegance to how our heroine dispatches the monster this time around. On balance, "Obsidian Butterfly" is one of the best novels in the series, ironically helped by the fact that Jean-Claude and Richard are, with minor exceptions, absent from the story.

When we got to "Narcissus in Chains," the tenth Anita Blake novel, is was impossible not to ambivalent about what was happening this time around. This one starts off like a typical Anita Blake novel with our heroine has been ignoring both Jean-Claude, the Master Vampire of St. Louis, and Richard, Ulfric of the local werewolf clan. So, once again, horror literature's most dysfunctional love triangle appears to be moving back to square one. But then we have an interesting twist. Usually Anita manifests another new dimension to her growing powers at the end of the novel, in term to help her out of the horrendous climatic confrontation where people she cares about are about to get killed by the new bad thing in town. However, this time around Anita is almost fatally injured in a fight. A weresnake is trying to rip her heart out of her chest when Gregory, one of her pard's wereleopards, forcible removes the attacker's hand. But in the process his claws something vital and now Anita is showing all the signs of preparing for a transformation in a wereleopard, which would make her a true Nimir-Ra. It looks like Anita might not have any choice about embracing the monster inside her (and we have to wonder what Edward would think of this development, especially given the events of the previous novel).

This time the title refers to a S&M Club run by a werehyena with a penchant for names from Greek mythology, is one of the faster paced Anita Blake novels. Basically Anita has to go through a series of rescue missions, such as saving Nathaniel from the sex club, Jean-Claude from jail, Gregory from the wrath of Richard's pack, Damian from being chained in a cross-covered coffin, and on and on and on. In addition to the possibility of turning into a lycanthrope, Anita has two additional complications. First, she had picked up Jean-Claude's "ardeur," which is basically a lust that goes well beyond sex. Second, she meets Micah Callah, who wants to be the Nimir-Raj of Anita's pard. The end result is that the unresolved love triangle has now been upped to at least a quadrangle, and that is before we even begin to figure out how Nathaniel and Asher fits into all this fun.

The sexuality of both the main character and the narrative had been building in recent novels, but I would make a conservative estimate that the amount of sex in "Narcissus in Chains" is easily double what we had in "Blue Moon" and "Obsidian Butterfly" combined. Hamilton has a hard time topping herself in each adventure in terms of horror and violence, so it is not surprising that she turns to other avenues. But even if Anita is becoming more comfortable with her sexuality and being nude among her pard, that does not mean the result of us are thoroughly enjoying the ride. The ending of "Narcissus in Chains" does turn out to be the traditional Anita-pulls-something-new-out-of-her-hat variety, along with what is becoming another cliche, the revelation of the villain's true identity. The problem is that at the conclusion of this novel we are encouraged to think that maybe, just maybe, Anita has finally resolved her relationship with Jean-Claude and Richard. But after reading the novels that follow this one it turns out Hamilton is just toying with us in that regard.

Do not buy this book for this price!.......2006-01-05

As any Laurell K. Hamilton fan knows, her stories are THE BEST. I realize that this book is a resale item from someone other than Amazon.com, but you do not need to pay $50! I bought mine from the Science Fiction Book Club last month (11/2005)for $14! $50 is an UNBELIEVABLE mark up for an item that is still in print!

7 Books: Burnt Offerings /The Killing Dance/ Incubus Dreams/ Blue Moon/ Obsidian Butterfly/ Micah / Narcissus in Chains (Unboxed Set of Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Series Books)

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ANITA BLAKE 8 BOOK SET[PAPERBACK,ORIG.JOVE] (anita blake, 8 books[burnt offerings/circus of the damned/blue moon/laughing corpse/narcissus in chains/obsidian butterfly/micah/bite)

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here are 8 books in the bestselling anita blake vampire hunter series!!

Guilty Pleasures; The Laughing Corpse; Circus of the Damned; The Lunatic Cafe; Bloody Bones; The Killing Dance; Burnt Offerings; Blue Moon; Obsidian Butterfly; Narcissus in Chains; Cerulean Sins; Incubus Dreams; Micah; Danse Macabre (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, 1-14)

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Guilty Pleasures; The Laughing Corpse; Circus of the Damned; The Lunatic Cafe; Bloody Bones; The Killing Dance; Burnt Offerings; Blue Moon; Obsidian Butterfly; Narcissus in Chains; Cerulean Sins; Incubus Dreams; Micah; Danse Macabre (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, 1-14)
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A complete set of the first 14 books in the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series. In chronological order as published, they are: Guilty Pleasures; The Laughing Corpse; Circus of the Damned; The Lunatic Cafe; Bloody Bones; The Killing Dance; Burnt Offerings; Blue Moon; Obsidian Butterfly; Narcissus in Chains; Cerulean Sins; Incubus Dreams; Micah; Danse Macabre

Laurell K. Hamilton: Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Series (Guilty Pleasures, The Laughing Corpse, Circus of the Damned, The Lunatic Cafe, Bloody Bones, The Killing Dance, Burnt Offerings, Blue Moon, Obsidian Butterfly, Narcissus in Chains, Cerulean Sins, Incubus Dreams, Micah, Danse Macabre)

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Laurell K. Hamilton: Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Series (Guilty Pleasures, The Laughing Corpse, Circus of the Damned, The Lunatic Cafe, Bloody Bones, The Killing Dance, Burnt Offerings, Blue Moon, Obsidian Butterfly, Narcissus in Chains, Cerulean Sins, Incubus Dreams, Micah, Danse Macabre)
Laurell K. Hamilton
Manufacturer: Berkley
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 1553696689
Release Date: 2006-07-06

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David Minor, an American importer on vacation in Acapulco, Mexico, meets a mysterious French beauty named Linda, who aggressively enters his life and reveals Mexicos paradoxical past and cynical present. On this dangerous and mystical odyssey, they unmask a Nazi war criminal, a fraudulent priest, a cruel revolutionary assassin who tries to control her family, shamans who spread myth and fear, and grave robbers who steal the souls and identity of their own country. The clash of distant times and cultures collide with the present, altering David's life forever. The legend of the Obsidian Butterfly continues.

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