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After losing one of its own, Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club make a courageous return for their fourth and most chilling case ever-one that could easily be their last. A young girl is killed in crossfire after a routine arrest goes terribly wrong, and Lt. Lindsay Boxer has to defend herself against a charge of police brutality. In a landmark trial that transfixes the nation, Lindsay fights to save her career and her sanity.

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Now this is more like it.......2007-09-30

After reading the mediocre 2nd and 3rd installments in the Women Murder Club series, I almost gave up. But I'm glad I didn't; 4th of July was able to recapture most of the excitement and thrill of 1st to Die. Fairly early on into the story, Lindsay and Jacobi are following a lead on the new string of murders. The victims are killed in a suicide-appearing manner and the words 'nobody cares' are painted at the scene. The two are following the suspect's vehicle, which escalates to a high-speed chase. The vehicle crashes and they go to apprehend the suspects. But things don't happen as they should and shots are fired. Lindsay becomes the target of a wrongful death lawsuit. This drama was a good chunk of the story- which wasn't necessarily a bad thing. It was riveting and interesting to 'witness' the whole process - the waiting, trial, more waiting, and the long-awaited verdict.

The mystery surrounds the series of murders near Lindsay's sister's house, where she conveniently goes to avoid the press. Multiple seemingly-happy married couples are turning up dead. The 'mystery' aspect is the downfall of 4th of July. I suspected early on who was involved and my conclusions weren't that far off. Though, still a much better, interesting, riveting, and involved story than the prior two installments; this story mainly focuses on drama- i.e. Lindsay's court battle and a predictable mystery. Hopefully Patterson continues taking the series in this direction instead of backtracking into the mediocre stories of 2nd Chance and 3rd Degree. I was also happy to find that the profanity had greatly decreased. The greater focus was on the story which was much stronger, especially in human interest, and less so in the mystery. Still a great, rapid paced read. 5th Horseman better continue in this same vein and keep up with the excitement. This series had such a strong premise and starting point. It needs to keep going on this strong note and not fall off, otherwise I don't know if I'd bother continuing with it.

Better than 3rd Degree.......2007-09-29

This was a good book. I had lost hope in the series after 3rd degree, i thought it was lame. But knowing how well all his other books are, I decided to read 4th of July and glad I did. I give it a 4, because I also read the quickie this week and that was a 5!

Is this really a book written by James Patterson?.......2007-09-16

I used to love James Patterson's books. Bought them all in hardcover and was eagerly looking forward to the next one.

But that was a while ago.

When I first felt he was slipping, I thought it might only be temporarily. He would certainly soon be back in good old JP form, right? Not so. After a few attempts I realized that the James Patterson I used to enjoy so much, seemed to have disappointed for good. My attempt with this book was so bad that I did not even finish it properly. Boring, unimaginatively B-movie story making me think of mass production. Mediocre writing style at best, and the end was obvious anyway.

I have lots of James Patterson books in hardback proudly on display in my antique bookcase where my favourite authors' hardback editions have pride of place. It's a long time since a work by James Patterson found its way there though.

By the way, the co-author he has taken on does not make the quality any better. Or is this the real author??

If James Patterson does not get back to being the brilliant writer of quite long ago, it's goodbye with many regrets. It was fun as long as it lasted.

Fun.......2007-09-13

Worth the time for a pleasant time passer. Would not be confused for great literature, but fun to listen to while on a road trip

5 Stars Without A Doubt.......2007-08-21

Add me to the list of those giving this James Patterson book 5 stars. Good fast paced reading, great twists & interesting story lines. Descriptions of murder scenes and court room testimony makes the reader feel like they are there.

4th of July, Asbury Park: A History of the Promised Land

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How not to run a city
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4th of July, Asbury Park: A History of the Promised Land
Daniel Wolff
Manufacturer: Bloomsbury USA
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ASIN: 1582345090
Release Date: 2005-06-16

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The story of the boardwalk town Bruce Springsteen made famous-and a quintessential portrait of small-town American democracy.

When Bruce Springsteen called his first album Greetings from Asbury Park, he introduced a generation of fans to a fallen seaside resort town that came to represent working-class American life. But behind this archetypal small-town landscape lies a complicated past.

Starting with the town's founding as a religious promised land, music journalist and poet Daniel Wolff plots a course through 130 years of entwined social and musical history, touching on John Philip Sousa, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, and Frankie Lymon on the way to the town Bruce was born to run from. Out of the details of local history-the boardwalk in the Gilded Age; the celebrities who passed through, from Stephen Crane to Martin Luther King; sensational murder trials; the birth of Mob control; and a devastating mid-century "race riot"-emerges a universal story of one small town's fortunes. Told with grace and full of fascinating detail, Daniel Wolff's tour across thirteen decades of the Fourth of July in Asbury Park captures all the allure and heartbreak of the American dream reduced to blight and decay, with gentrification as the one hope for a return to its glory days.

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OFFENSIVE ,POLITICALLY CORRECT TRASH.......2007-05-07

I am offended by this book.
It is politically correct,which in itself is a turn-off,but the author,Daniel Wolff,seems neither to understand the history of Asbury Park,nor appreciate the fact that that history CANNOT be viewed through a politically correct microscope.
To begin with Asbury Park,as well as nearby Ocean Grove were begun as strictly conservative religious communities...Wolff either does not understand the importance of this fact,or is himself offended by its implications.Furthermore,both communities were begun not as public,but as PRIVATE communities.Absbury park,unlike Ocean Grove,was not wholly owned by the Methodist church but was,instead,owned and operated by one man,james Bradey,himself a strict Methodist ...
To understand Asbury Park and not understand that THINGS WERE VERY VERY DIFFERENT IN THE 19th century is to not understand anything at all...Wolff seems intent upon grafting 21st century values and thinking upon a 19th century canvas,something that just does not work..
Take,for example,the problems caused by the black population of that time,who neither owned any property in Asbury Park,nor even lived within that communities borders..These people were,for the most part,employed as "menials",i.e.porters,cooks,maids and suchlike...It was a time when the sort of equality that is commonplace today was NOT commonplace..And Asbury Park,like any other BUSINESS VENTURE,depended upon a monied customer base in order to both thrive and expand...and in the 19th century that monied customer base,like it or not,was white,AND not a little bit bigoted against blacks..Sure,by today's standards such behaviour would not be tolerated,but it is apparent that Wolff does not understand that 1880 is not 2007,and that what today would not be tolerated in 1880,1890,1900,ect was both tolerated and commonplace.So instead of understanding this fact,and writing about Asbury Park AS IT WAS,Wolff instead makes his focus the fact that blacks,who were employed at various businesses in Asbury Park were nonetheless not wanted as paying customers whose presence tended to deter the monied white from coming there..
Wolff celebrates defiance..Instead of appreciating that the 19th century,for the most part was a far different,more conservative place that almost anywhere is today,he istead tends to deride the values that were prevailing and glorify the critics..One of these was author Stephen Crane,famous for the novel"The Red Badge of Courage"but,at that time,a relentless critic of everything Brady's Asbury Park represented..Most people who came to Asbury Park at that time had little problem with theprevailing atmosphere of conservative,religiously oriented standards(otherwise how could either Asbury Park of nearby Ocean Grove thrive,as they most certainly did?)but Wolff chooses to ignore this fact and instead zero in on the rebels,like Crane,who apparently felt that it was his job to spit on the status Quo..
Throughout the book Wolff makes the saga of Asbury Park one great big "civil rights"saga..Which,of course,it was not...Further,Wolff fails to understand why Asbury Park became the washed up slum that,until only recently,it was..Like it or not,the monied interests,both in terms of capital and the tourist trade,were largely dominated by whites who deserted Asbury Park when other more"exclusive"getaways presented themselves(in the more modern era of automobile and airplane travel),leaving the town largely to its black population,under which like every other big city in New Jersey,quickly degenerated into a slum...
Does this sound a tad bigoted?Maybe,but bigoted or not the fact remains that when whites fled the inner-cities and the old shore resort towns,the new black majorities there no longer attracted tourists or industry..
Wolff fails to understand that tourists WITH MONEY do not have to go to places like Asbury Park...They do not have to mingle,on an equal basis,with those whom they employ to cut thier hair or shine thier shoes..Sure,in a"perfect"world everyone would not only be"equal"but accepting and considerate towards everyone else,but unless you have been living with your eyes and ears closed,ours has never been a perfect world,not today,and certainly not in the 19th century,which was Asbury Park's heyday...So Wolff,failing to understand reality,instead paints his word-picture of Asbury Park in strokes that have little in common with reality..
Another one of Wolff's heroic figures is Bruce Springsteen..Wolff celebrates Springsteen's lyrics about the working man,and all of the rest of his contrived twaddle,as if the songs that have made it possible for Springsteen to enjoy a lifestyle far removed from just about anyone he ever encountered in Asbury Park somehow has meaning with regard to the city itself..Surely if Springsteen's lyrics did have any real relevance to the real Asbury Park,then Springsteen himself would still be living there..Instead he lives(at least part of the time)in Rumson,new jersey,the sort of rich beach community,populated mainly by rich whites like himself,that,in his book,Wolff so denigrates...
This book is trash..It has no idea what reality represents,either way back when,in the 19th century,or now,in the politically correct 21st century..Springsteen,wolff's anti-hero from Asbury Park,may sing about the disenfranchised,but like the white people of that long ago Asbury Park,he doesn't live among them..

How not to run a city.......2007-04-14

Not a Bruce Springsteen bio or critique and not advertised as one, 4th of July, Asbury Park: A History of the Promised Land by Daniel Wolff fits its eponymus title exactly.

Please excuse any hubris - it is not intended - but you will enjoy this book a lot more if you have an aquaintance and familiarity with Asbury (the only name by which it was referred). And, while my title aptly describes what this book addressses, I have to admit to being stunned by the history author Wolff presents.

Key to that is the knowledge that Asbury Park did not develop as city through what I'll call natural means. There was no influx of population that arrived and, other time, established roots and the attendant need for a municipal structure to meet public needs. Instead, it was the creation of a individual who in this day and age would be called a fundamentalist Christian but was profit-minded enough that he wanted to work on Sundays.

The creation was named Asbury Park after noted Methodist Francis Asbury and its mission, if you will, was to provide beach-related services to the quasi-rich. This is did with notable success to its customer-base while providing virtually nothing to the population that worked there. Its municipal government was based on the premise of "of the influencial, for the wealthy, supported by the down-trodden." This precept cannot be better depicted than by the fact that the blacks who worked in the city's nyriiad hotels and business not only lived literally on the wrong side of the railway tracks but also lived in an area not incorporated into the city until the 20th Century so that the administration did not have to provide services to them.

The Administrations also subscribed to the "no honor among thieves" doctrine by engaging in perpetual internicine warfare among themselves to win the mayoralty and patronage dispensations. But, irregardless of whomsoever was in power, there was adherence to the notion that public funds were - after appropriate skimming - only to be spent on the tourists. This left the city with an elegant ocean facing facade backed by a rotting infrastructure.

With the advent of cheap airfare in the 1960s, tourists ceased to come to the Jersey Shore, choosing instead sites in the Caribbean and Mexico. With the slowdown in revenue, the city collapsed inwardly and, by the 1970/1980 period devolved into the Beruit cum Baghdad appearance it has to this day.

Wolff portrays this history in a clear, concise fashion and does name the names and cite the crimes. His appraisals are scrupulously honest and fair. He points out that the tendency to fortget anything more than, say, five blocks from the boardwalk was not limited by race, color, creed or place of national origin; in a way, he provces that corruption is the best example of diversity.

All in all, an excellent book. It broke my heart to read it.

Down the Shore.......2005-10-26

This book is a great resource. As a person who grew up "down the shore" adjacent to Asbury Park, I've learned a tremendous amount about the area's history. Interesting read with a great level of detail and chapter notes. I had borrowed it from the library but wanted my own copy to add to my shore book collection.

Who knew? .......2005-10-22

Who knew that the history of a town that I had never heard of in New Jersey would yield such an interesting read? The town is set up in such a way that it resembles some of the seedy racist behaviors that all of us would like to believe don't exist anymore but need to come to terms with.
There is plenty of talk about Springsteen, but there is also plenty of well-researched information on the rest of the love-to-hate-'em characters in the town.

A revelation on every page.......2005-10-16

I am a Jersey kid by birth. I graduated high school the same year as Bruce Springsteen, but about 50 miles away. It might as well have been 5 million miles.

As a kid, there were family trips to the boardwalk at Asbury Park. When I was in high school, there were concerts at Convention Hall. I even dated a girl who's family spent part of the summer in Ocean Grove, but that's a story for another time. To me, Asbury Park was the length and breadth of the beach and boardwalk.

It was obvious, even to an infrequent visitor like me, that the city was in terrible decline, but it took this book to explain how and why that happened, and, at the same time, place that experience within a much larger context.

The stresses caused by the fundamental dichotomies that Asbury Park was built on are the same ones that challenge much of the U.S. Religion and commerce, racial conflict, the strengths and weaknesses of machine politics, even the tug-of-war of fantasy and reality, they are all in Asbury Park's history, and they are all around us, wherever we are. Those conflicts all took a terrible toll on Asbury Park, just as they all take a toll everywhere.

In this book, Daniel Wolff tells us the history of a small place, and in the telling, illuminates larger truths. It is no coincidence that Springsteen's fame grew as he found ways to express his universal themes without tying them to a specific place and time. In his own way, Daniel Wolfe lets us see how and why that happened.

As serious as the subject matter is, the book is written in a deftly lighthanded style that makes reading it a completely enjoyable event. Don't miss it.

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Happy 4th of July, Jenny Sweeney
Leslie Kimmelman
Manufacturer: Albert Whitman & Company
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ASIN: 0807531529

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It's the 4th of July and all over town, people are getting ready. Jenny Sweeney gives her dog, Rags, a bath, Mike the fireman polishes the firetruck, and Mayor Swanson works on her speech. All the preparations lead up to the big parade and a night of bright fireworks. It's a great day. "Happy Birthday, USA!"

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Pleasant Read!.......2007-07-12

Happy 4th of July, Jenny Sweeney is a pleasant read. The author attempts to rhyme, but the beat feels forced in areas. Kimmelman, mostly known for How Do I Love You, keeps the sentences short and sweet. In fact, although available in hardcover only, the 32-paged book could be enjoyed by a 2-year old. As an appendix to the book, the author ends with a short explanation of the Declaration of Independence, the Liberty Bell, and the National Bird. Nancy Cote's artwork is run of the mill, yet I like it. The pictures tell the story better than the Kimmelman's words, and there's loads of details to uncover. The watercolor images are bright, colorful, and very expressive. William's enjoyed Happy 4th of July, Jenny Sweeney because it's simple, and easy for a child to grasp. In addition, the doggy antics add charm, and appeal. Kimmelman's attempt to educate our youngsters at the end earns her bonus points, plus, I appreciate the diversity aspects as well.

Great book.......2004-01-08

I looked for a while trying to find a 4th of July to read to younger kids that was interesting, had good illustrations and is short enough to keep thier interest. Believe it or not most 4th of July storybooks are somewhat wordy. Then I found this book and my quest had ended. The story follows a young girl through the day and shows different activities that people in her town do for the holiday. The stroy is concise and enjoyable and the illustrations are sharp and colorful. Far and away the best children's storybook I have read about the 4th of July.

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The 4th of July Story
Alice Dalgliesh
Manufacturer: Charles Scribners Sons
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Binding: Hardcover
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4th of July

4th of July
James Patterson , and Maxine Paetro
Manufacturer: Little, Brown & Co. / Doubleday Large Print
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Binding: Hardcover

ASIN: 0739454110

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After losing one of its own, Lindsay Boxer and the Womens Murder Club make a courageous return for their fourth and most chilling case ever--one that could easily be their last. A young girl is killed in crossfire after a routine arrest goes terribly wrong, and Lt. Lindsay Boxer has to defend herself against a charge of police brutality. In a landmark trial that transfixes the nation, Lindsay fights to save her career and her sanity. While awaiting trial, Lindsay escapes to the beautiful town of Half Moon Bay, but the peaceful community there is reeling from a string of unspeakable murders. Working with her friends in the Womens Murder Club, Lindsay finds a link between these killings and a case she worked on years before--an unsolved murder that has haunted her ever since. As summer comes into full swing, Lindsay battles for her life on two fronts: before a judge and jury as her trial comes to a climax, and facing unknown adversaries who will do anything to keep her from the truth about the killings--including killing again. It all comes to a head before the big annual 4th of July celebration on the waterfront at Half Moon Bay. Patterson fine-tunes the tension like never before in this heart-racing new novel in the bestselling detective series to debut in years.

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4th of July.......2007-04-30

This book i must say wasn't the best JP book i've ever read and i found that about half way through it slowed down a little but like all JP books the ending was thrilling and i was and i was glad to have read it.

The Big click: Photographing South Carolina : a Palmetto Discovery '92 event, July 4th weekend, 1991

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The Big click: Photographing South Carolina : a Palmetto Discovery '92 event, July 4th weekend, 1991

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4th of July Postcard Book

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Independence Day, or the Fourth of July as it is more commonly called, celebrates the signing of The Declaration of Independence on July 4th, 1776. Fireworks are the most colorful and ubiquitous feature of Independence Day celebrations; they represent the battle scene Francis Scott Key looked upon when he wrote the "Star Spangled Banner." Our postcard book contains 30 reproductions of vintage Independence Day postcards and features flags, fireworks, Uncle Sam, Lady Liberty, and many of the other cherished symbols of our national holiday.

Miss 4th of July, Goodbye: A Novel Based on the Life of Niki (Born Xenopoulos Janus)

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A Beautiful Masterpiece against Bigotry and Hatred!!
Born on the Fourth of July

Miss 4th of July, Goodbye: A Novel Based on the Life of Niki (Born Xenopoulos Janus)
Christopher G. Janus
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ASIN: 0934831009

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A Beautiful Masterpiece against Bigotry and Hatred!!.......2002-05-02

This enlightning,touching Christopher G. Janus novel"Miss 4th of July,Goodbye" is comparable to"The Diary of Anne Frank" and "The Color Purple".The book is written in a letter series format that's fiction but historically accurate by the author's sister 16 year old Niki Janus(A sophisicated European,Fluent in seven languages) who immigrates with her family from wartorn Greece in 1916 around WW1 to a small town near Charleston West Virginia called Montgomery where the Ku Klux Klan has a stronghold and targets and persecutes both African-Americans and Immigrants.These emotionally sensitive letters written to her Grandfather residing in Greece explains the culture shock of her moving into her new land,the bigotry and hatred some of the people in Montgomery associated with the Klan and her first experience being in love.She also writes about the brutal harrasement that she and her family experiences when she befriends an older African-American who shows kindness and generosity to her family but most of the townspeople are sympathetic that shows an overall goodness of the town of Montgomery.A horrific Flu epidemic then hits home and Niki good deeds helping out during that crises unfortunately leads to her tragedy.The town than votes Niki(the first foriegner) the coveted local title"Miss 4th of July" which chooses the lady who has contributed the most for the good of the community.A Disney film was made based on this novel"Goodbye,Miss 4th of July"starring Roxanna Zal and Lou Gossett Jr.,now on video.This novel represents a beautiful masterpiece especially against bigotry and hatred that makes very worthwhile reading!!

Born on the Fourth of July.......2000-01-02

It's a very good book. I liked it, but i can't find the book online, so i can read it.

Image and Video Retrieval: 4th International Conference, CIVR 2005, Singapore, July 20-22, 2005, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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Image and Video Retrieval: 4th International Conference, CIVR 2005, Singapore, July 20-22, 2005, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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ASIN: 3540278583

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, CIVR 2005, held in Singapore, in July 2005. The 20 revised full papers and 42 poster papers presented together with an introduction and 4 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 128 submissions. Besides the invited and industrial presentations the papers are organized in topical sections on video retrieval techniques, video story segmentation and event detection, semantics in video retrieval, image indexing and retrieval, image/video annotation and clustering, interactive video retrieval and others, image/video retrieval applications, and two sections comprising the poster presentations on video processing, retrieval and multimedia systems and on image feature extraction, indexing and retrieval.

Advances in Web-Based Learning - ICWL 2005: 4th International Conference, Hong Kong, China, July 31 - August 3, 2005, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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Advances in Web-Based Learning - ICWL 2005: 4th International Conference, Hong Kong, China, July 31 - August 3, 2005, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Web-Based Learning, ICWL 2005, held in Hong Kong, China in July/August 2005.

The 33 revised full papers and 9 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 99 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on e-learning platforms and tools; learning resource deployment, organization, and management; practice and experience sharing; mobile e-learning; and pedagogical issues.

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