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ASIN: 0141002190
Release Date: 2001-10-02 |
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Lori Shepherd, niece of one of the most benevolent ghosts in fiction, discovers there's life (and death) after motherhood in this charming, neo-Gothic tale of haunted castles, time-traveling spirits, and hidden treasure. Leaving her twin toddlers at home in the Cotswolds with her husband, an American lawyer working in England, Lori sets off for Wyrdhurst Hall to evaluate a private library for a wealthy client who has given the castle to his niece Nicole and her new husband, Jared Hollander. But a mysteriously open gate leads Lori dangerously astray. Rescued from a potentially fatal accident by a handsome and charming stranger to whom she is immediately attracted, she resumes her journey to the gloomy Scottish estate. Once ensconced at Wyrdhurst, Lori finds the young mistress is terrified by the sounds and apparitions that haunt the castle and equally frightened of her cold and controlling husband. Lori uncovers a secret cache of letters from an earlier era that hint at a tragic love affair and a death that must be avenged before Wyrdhurst's ghost--and its present inhabitants--can rest in peace. With Aunt Dimity's magic journal warning her that danger surrounds her passionate infatuation with Adam Chase, who has his own reasons for wanting Lori to get to the bottom of the mystery, our intrepid heroine traces the ghostly apparitions to their source. In the process she makes the acquaintance of the restless spirit whose love for a World War I soldier was thwarted, but not destroyed, by Wyrdhurst's original owner and provides the happy-ever-after ending to this charming and lively mystery. Nancy Atherton's fans will adore Lori and Aunt Dimity, and readers new to the series will be delighted to discover the fearless duo in this atmospheric and very well-paced story. --Jane Adams
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"A romantic tale with echoes of A. S. Byatt's Possession and enough dreamy and ghostly wish-fulfillment to satisfy readers across several genres." (Booklist
With rain crashing down on her Range Rover, as it climbs up a steep embankment on the Northumberland moors, Lori Shepherd is beginning to doubt the wisdom of her decision to evaluate a rare book collection at Wyrdhurst Hall.
The grim, neo-gothic hall that greets her upon arrival is full of surprises-including a charming, secretive stranger, and a cache of World War I letters that tell a tale of doomed love and hint at a hidden treasure. It will take all of Dimity's supernatural skills to help Lori solve the puzzle and restore peace to a family haunted by its tragic past.
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Silly and Formulaic.......2006-10-28
If protagonist, Lori is to continue "fooling around," Nancy Atherton should have poor husband Bill take the kids, move back to Boston, and file for divorce. Lori's antics are childish and make Bill look like a chump. Hard to enjoy such a silly plot. Speaking of plot, this one works far better in Aunt Dimity and the Duke.
Light and fun.......2006-07-04
Other reviewers have already nicely recounted the plot for you, so I won't repeat the information.
I just have to say that this is another excellent book in the Aunt Dimity series. It's a fun, quick, feel-good, cute book that doesn't come off as silly (Lori's favorite stuffed animal Reginald) or creepy (deceased Aunt Dimity communicating with Lori through a diary).
And even though it's pure fun fluff, the mystery itself is pretty intriguing. I was impressed. Not only was I completely surprised as to who the culprit was, there is a twist toward the very end that I did not see coming at all.
Great little book and I highly recommend it.
Aunt Dimity is Great.......2002-03-16
Just love this series. Read the most recent one and went on Amazon to find all the previous. Fun, relaxing books that you want to curl up in front of the fire and read.
Another Winner........2001-08-29
This series is light and airy, a real pleasure reading. A great difference from the classic English mystery but just as interesting. A great gift for the mystery lover. A wonderful read.
All of the Aunt Dimity series.......2001-08-16
I am an expat living in Singapore, also very bored, between the serious reading,"Conversation with God" for example I discovered the Dimity series, have enjoyed it immmensly. A days read which actually relaxes me and takes my mind off other problems.So a big thank you to the author, Can't she write quicker! What am I to do now!
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Aunt Dimity Beats the Devil
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During Lori Sheherd' journey to England's wyrdhyrst Hall she falls under the spell of the old building. She unearth's secret's and has amazing experiences
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Simple Justice is the definitive history of the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education and the epic struggle for racial equality in this country. Combining intensive research with original interviews with surviving participants, Richard Kluger provides the fullest possible view of the human and legal drama in the years before 1954, the cumulative assaults on the white power structure that defended segregation, and the step-by-step establishment of a team of inspired black lawyers that could successfully challenge the law. Now, on the fiftieth anniversary of the unanimous Supreme Court decision that ended legal segregation, Kluger has updated his work with a new final chapter covering events and issues that have arisen since the book was first published, including developments in civil rights and recent cases involving affirmative action, which rose directly out of Brown v. Board of Education.
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Separate but Equal is Inherently Unequal.......2007-08-09
Long a mainstay of every 1L's pre-law school summer reading list, SIMPLE JUSTICE is more than a retelling of the tortured history of the landmark cases now known collectively as Brown v. Board of Ed. It is more than a retelling of the agonizing struggles of both gifted and ordinary people---black and white and every other---to reverse the four centuries of racial disparagement that make up the ugliest of all underpinnings of the American Experiment. What SIMPLE JUSTICE is, is an exhaustive sociological history of race relations in the United States to the 1950s.
It is a book every American should read. The endemic quality of racism in the American psyche is so overwhelming that it is easy to lose the human element. SIMPLE JUSTICE restores that element with sensitive, intelligent writing, exhaustive and documented research, and a tone which is pitch perfect, strident when need be, reasoned and thoughtful throughout. Ultimately optimistic, SIMPLE JUSTICE will renew your belief in the American system even while tempering it.
In it's retelling of nightmarish incident after nightmarish incident (the explosive and hideous lynchings are often easier to understand than the equally hideous and more subtle segregation and caricaturing that endured for, it seems, ever), SIMPLE JUSTICE shows us an America riven by its view of itself as a noble nation being eaten by the canker in its soul.
Although many Americans now consider race discrimination passe, it is not so hard to see the continuation of a pattern of violence toward blacks and the denigration of the black experience, even today. And yet, there is more, for not only are Black Americans denigrated, but White Americans as well, both suffering because this nation is only a fraction of what it might othewise be.
SIMPLE JUSTICE is a crucial Civics lesson. Read it to learn. Read it to know. Read it. Read it again.
one of the best books ever written.......2006-08-07
This is certainly the best book ever written -- the best book that ever will be written -- about race, law and American society. It is a remarkably insightful history and one of the most stunning existing examples of narrative journalism. It is a masterpiece.
Moving and Informative.......2006-07-07
I'm a fan of nonfiction works and this easily moved to my top 5 favorite books. When I was growing up there were no courses on the contributions blacks made to America. There was no black history month. And I was cheated. I'm a 50+ white woman who lived through desegregation and had no clue that it was a struggle. I honestly don't remember a time when my elementary classes were all white but they must have been. I do remember clearly when my elementary class stopped being all white. That was when Richard Harris became my Batman buddy. On the aftenoons following the show we would go to the neighborhood soda shop and have a coke and discuss all the action of the previous evening's show and check for new Batman bubble gum cards with the intensity that only 5th graders can bring to such an important endeavor. It felt normal to chat Batman with Richard; and I'm so sorry for all the children that had such a dumb practice as segregation rob them of those moments.
This book read like a thiriller for me. Couldn't put it down. Underlined and highlighted parts. Read other sections out loud to my husband and to some friends at work. This is American history. Everyone should have the opportunity to learn about the value of education, the value of varied experiences and the perseverance to acquire the rights that should never have been denied to the black people. It's made me hungry to know more and I'll be keeping my eye out for other works by Kluger. Excellent author.
Compelling and original arguments and a fresh analysis of America's black & white race relations.......2005-08-13
I just finished this book, A Simple Justice, and it is fantastic. It's the story of Brown vs. The Board of Education of Topeka, which is the landmark Supreme Court case that desegregated compulsory public schools in America. But it's so much more than that. After reading this book, I felt almost ashamed of my previous ignorance to the struggles and condition of black america at the hands of almost everyone else in the country. It is comprehensive in its scope and perspicacious in its analysis, sparing no feelings on either (or rather, any) side. I believe myself to be, for the most part, a judicious man when it comes to philosophical or sociological observations, but Kluger was able to open my eyes to angles I had previously missed on issues I thought I had resolved long ago. So if you're not too scared of big books, this one's worth the time.
Excellent US Political and Social History.......2005-08-01
Richard Kluger's Simple Justice was not only one of the most detailed, but also most interesting books I have read on history/political science. Although I feel that I'm more aware than the average white American in regard to the current economic and ethnic social disparities in the US, and also thought I was reasonably knowledgeable in regard to the civil rights struggle in the US, this book taught me a great deal.
I found part I of Kulger's book "Under the Color of Law" very interesting. One of the things of interest to me was how people during that time, both black and white, thought about the issues. I don't mean the hardcore abolitionists, or `civil rights-soldiers' so much as the common white and black man, and also those political leaders, including the more powerful ones like President Lincoln who were somewhat more indirectly involved in the changes that eventually started to take place.
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BRAND NEW leather bound book accented with gilt! ! A "simply spectacular, learned, vivid and clear" account of the historic 1954 case. Leather bound.
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A killing outside a West Hollywood gay bar called The Out Crowd is what brings reporter Benjamin Justice out of a long, boozy funk in what looks to be the start of a lively, literate new series. Justice blew a Pulitzer when an article about two AIDS victims turned out to be fiction. Now, carrying that and other wounds, he gets the chance to pull himself together by helping another reporter look into the political and social implications of the murder.
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Following the death of his lover and a scandal involving his Pulitzer Prize-winning article, crime reporter Benjamin Justice has fallen into a hazy, alcoholic reclusiveness, hiding out in the West Hollywood neighborhood known as the Norma Triangle. He is called back to the world of the living by an unexpected, and unwelcome, visit from Harry Brofsky, his former boss. Brofsky wants Ben to do some background work (strictly off the record) with another reporter on the investigation of a seemingly motiveless killing outside a local gay bar.
Sucked in for reasons even he doesn't quite understand, Justice finds himself back in the life of gay bars, spurned lovers, dysfunctional families, and tawdry secrets--all the things he had been trying to escape. While fending off passes from his sexy, young female partner, he finds himself falling hopelessly in love with the man he must ultimately nail for murder--a killing that turns out to have far more personal and political implications than a simple bias crime.
Simple Justice is a subtly plotted mystery that takes a piercing look at not only violent crime but violations of the heart and soul in the sometimes glamorous, more often dark and dangerous gay life of West Hollywood.
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Well-Deserved Award.......2007-08-06
This book won an Edgar as best first novel of 1996, and the award was well-deserved. It's well-written and affecting, with a tortured hero who finds a measure of personal redemption in solving the mystery. Benjamin Justice was a hot-shot investigative reporter, but when it was discovered that he had faked his Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial series, he lost the prize, his job and his self-respect. Now the editor who took the fall with him comes to him for a favor-- do some research, teach what you know to a new hotshot. The possibility for resurrection appears. It's a good read.
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great protagonist, enlightening plot .......2006-10-05
I bought this book at a used book store, so I guess I didn't put any money in Mr. Wilson's coffers at that point, but now he's got me hooked and buying the rest of the series at regular prices, so I don't think he's going to be too miffed about the used bookstore thingie.
I typically like protagonists who are flawed, sometimes seriously so, but willing to admit those flaws and attempt to live fully in spite of them. I also like sarcasmos like Benjamin Justice, and when I read within the first few pages his attempts to figuratively smack around an ex-colleague with a tendency to make racist comments, I really liked him a lot.
Throughout this book, the reader gets involved in not only a mystery that needs solving (in this case, the mystery of who killed young gay man) but also in a tale that opens doors to new understanding of the protagonist's lifestyle and personality. Okay, that might not make sense. What I mean is that for some readers, those like me, gay friends and family members are not a rarity, but specific details about their lifestyles may well be, and this book was enlightening on that front.
There is sex in this book, some of it fairly graphic. You don't just hear that Justice is gay; you get to see him living the life of a gay man, having sexual relations, etc. In my experience as a mystery reader, that's a bit rare, unless I pick up a mystery that is specifically geared for gay readers, and this one isn't (at least, not in my opinion). It's decidely mainstream in its audience focus, but also very frank and realistic.
You're not gonna get to know Benjamin Justice WITHOUT REALLY GETTING TO KNOW HIM. Sexuality, sarcasm, and personality warts in all. He's not perfect. He's capable of brutality. He's capable of shame. He's capable of horniness. He's capable of compassion. Seeing all the aspects of his life made him a human being, rather than a flat character on a page, to me, and in a sense, he made other people real to me in the way that reading about different cultural experiences helps me understand other cultures better and allows me to see the similarities between us, the ways in which we are remarkably similar. Similarities it's really easy to forget sometimes.
Oh, boy, that went all over the place.
What I liked about this book: the mystery, which I really didn't completely figure out until the very end (a good thing indeed; sometimes I know from the first ten pages whodidit, and that really bugs me; the way Wilson develops Justice's character and gives us pieces of his past to help us understand him better; the weird actions of other characters in the book, evidence that human beings really are goofy sometimes (hey, Alexandra, I mean you!); and the very solid writing (good word choice, interesting and authentic dialogue, excellent pacing).
Pick up this book; you won't be disappointed!
What a start for a series, and what a novel ending.......2006-05-16
I first read JM Wilson's fourth novel and found it well worth going back to the start and getting this first novel. I was very, very impressed with the writing. Read a chapter of "Simple Justice" and then one of Grafton's "S is for Silence" and you'll get a clear picture of good fiction and interesting sentence structure versus the mundane, dumbed down language increasingly common in American mystery novels. Wilson's writing and characters are just far, far more complicated and interesting than Grafton's.
While I could figure out the ending in Wilson's first novel, the last scene is so twisted and captivating that you'll find your eyebrows raised and a "wow!" coming from your lips.
I'm now into novel 2 of Wilson's and haven't been as excited about discovering a new author to read since I found out about James Lee Burke.
Troubled sleuth.......2004-06-05
Mr.Wilson's debut novel is set in a very specific environment. Gay and lesbian world of LA. Benjamin Justice, his sleuth, is a man on a brink of destruction. Overwhelmed with grief and regrets he spends his days drinking cheap wine. The writer is blunt and to the point, and he doesn't care(and he shouldn't)who gets offended. There is no law that forces anybody to read or finish the book they started.Everybody is intitled to his own opinion or bigotry but what always amazes me is the inability to understand those different that we are.That simple thing is the key of coexistence in this world. This is a good book and I am happy I found it.
Simply Good!.......2004-01-03
It must be something about the California climate, but that state keeps producing one good mystery writer after another: Joseph Hansen, Walter Mosley, Michael Nava and now John Morgan Wilson. His first novel SIMPLE JUSTICE is told from the viewpoint of Benjamin Justice, a former journalist who had to give back a Pulitzer-- hey, this character is right up to date-- for writing about what appears to be two fictional characters, one of whom is dying of AIDS. He is coerced into coming out of his alcoholic retirement by his former boss Harry Brofsky to work on a story about a murder outside a gay bar in Los Angeles. Besides these two, Wilson creates other memorable characters. Justice's landlords, Maurice and Fred, could have become stereotypes, but they don't. Alex Templeton, a black heterosexual reporter, makes for an interesting character as does the closeted tennis chamption Samantha Eliason. Wonder whom she's based on.
Wilson avoids doing what many mystery writers do, i.e., he doesn't make the story a treatise on some profession-- journalism, college professors, police departments, for example. Also, the narrative is fast-paced and you do not see the scaffolding underpinning the story line. Most importantly, the characters, particularly Justice, are fully developed as people. Justice actually becomes more self-aware and actually grows as a character, something I don't expect from a mystery character. Finally, Wilson makes a political statement but does it with finesse and subtlety.
There are nice touches. Wilson pays tribute to Walter Mosley by having Samantha Eliason's beefy bodyguard reading Mosley's mystery BLACK BETTY, for instance.
The novel is ultimately quite moving as Wilson takes on difficulty subjects: relationships, homophobia, single gay parents, dysfunctional families, love, forgiveness. SIMPLE JUSTICE is simply a very good mystery.
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small schools are great but how do we get them?.......2001-08-17
I emphatically agree with the book's central message: Small schools are greatly preferable to large. (I went through public school in L.A.; I should know.)
The book gives many wonderful examples of how small schools have revolutionized education in a number of places where public schools had been failing their students. The authors were among those dedicated enough to see through the building, running, and nurturing of such places of learning.
The book also gave a glimpse of what education is meant to be-- intense investigation, asking endless series of questions addressing issues of student interest, a process of learning for teacher as well as student--and contrasted this with what goes on in a typical factory-model school. Hurrah!
Unfortunately, the book made two glaring omissions (thus the four stars, not five). First, there was extremely little discussion of the resources needed to make this happen, and the corresponding lack of political will. It is easy to point out that wealthy school districts think $12,000 a student-year is an appropriate amount to spend for top-flight education, and that the special needs of poor districts suggest that even more is needed there. (And this is still mostly using the factory- model school for middle and high school.) But it is another thing altogether to develop a political strategy to deal with the discrepancies.
Second, I believe that the factory-model school is actually failing almost everyone, not just the poor in the city. Ideals of education are met no better in Novato, CA, than in Oakland. School is an impersonal waste of time in Novato, too. Issues of social justice are nowhere on the radar screen there, either. Kids go to "civics" class, biology, etc. Curriculum never changes, kids do not get to develop major educational programs based on their interests.
We need to find ways of encouraging everyone to engage in a discussion of social justice. Reagan and his welfare queen, Bush and Willie Horton, and years of perverse race-based criminal justice approaches (most notably the war on drugs), have set us back immeasurably. Milton Friedman has won; all the progressive tax systems are being whittled back; social services--from health care to welfare to, you guessed it, public education--are on the out.
Everyone should be in on this mission. I think the book speaks far too narrowly to the inner city and not broadly enough. (An important question here is whether we are asking city schools to perform wildly different functions from suburban schools, and if so, whether this is serving either of these populations.)
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A Simple Matter of Justice: Theorizing Gay and Lesbian Politics (Lesbian & Gay Studies)
Angelia R. Wilson
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