RUGER AND HIS GUNS: A History of the Man, the Company and Their Firearms

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Absolutely Wonderful!!!.......2006-08-30

Gosh, this was a pleasant book to read. The only negative I recall was the lack of detailed information about all of the photographs scattered throughout the book. I admit I was hoping to read a little more about some of the business failures and reasons why some firearms did not go into production. However, we don't need to focus in on the negative when it comes to Mr. Ruger's wonderful life! Other than my desire to want a little more description about the photographs and business dealings, this was an absolutely wonderful book on Mr. Ruger.

If you like Ruger guns, you will love this book!.......2005-12-19

From the first Standard Auto, to Flatgate Single Six's, Flattop Blackhawks, Hawkeye's, Bearcat's, Model 77s, Redhawks, you name it, it is all in here. I love this book. It is the best book on Ruger firearms that you can buy.

The ultimate Ruger Collectors reference.......1998-11-11

This book is perfect for anyone interested in the history of Sturm, Ruger and Co. The information is presented in a very organized fashion. I highly recommend this book at twice the price.

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An engaging story of the life of Gerry Bull
An excellent book!

Arms and the Man
William Lowther
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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Release Date: 1993-08-04

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An engaging story of the life of Gerry Bull.......2006-08-02

This is a great read, even for those who know nothing about the exploits of Dr Gerry Bull. Dr Bull was a flawed genius - a passionate and driven ballistics visionary responsible for the design of many of the worlds deadliest artillery cannons, and yet he was politically naive, inspirational to his colleagues, and a practical joker. He provoked both deep loyalty in his friends and deep hatred in his enemies. The latter would lead to his assassination. He died during his work on Project Babylon - a cannon several hundred metres long!

This book delivers on many fronts: it is well researched and provides in depth information about the superguns that Dr Bull hoped could send small satelites into space, it also delves into his personal life, and takes the reader into the shady and nervous underworld of illegal arms dealings that Gerald Bull wound up in by circumstance.

William Lowther has written with great passion and produced a book that will captivate you and make you want to tell Dr Bull's story to everyone you meet.

An excellent book!.......1999-10-17

This is a fascinating look at the life of a true genius whose path took him, inevitably, to Saddam's door. His dream of producing a gun capable of putting a satellite into orbit was twisted into a weapon for the Iraqi regime. Reads like an espionage novel, although it slows down a bit when talking about the businesses and fronts used to get the weapon's parts into Iraq. Otherwise, a really good read!

A Path Where No Man Thought: Nuclear Winter and the End of the Arms Race

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A Path Where No Man Thought: Nuclear Winter and the End of the Arms Race
Carl Sagan , and Richard Turco
Manufacturer: Random House
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Binding: Hardcover

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Locking Arms: Strength in Character through Friendships

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A deep look into the friendship gap between men
A deep look into the relationship gap in male friendship
Locking Arms (Man - to - Man)

Locking Arms: Strength in Character through Friendships
Stu Weber
Manufacturer: Multnomah
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0880707224
Release Date: 1995-01-01

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As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. Discover the truth about God's design for masculine firendship, and learn to build sou-shaping, brother-to-brother relationships by LOCKING ARMS.

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A deep look into the friendship gap between men.......2006-08-04

Locking Arms by Stu Weber is a profound book. He examines the importance of male friendships throughout history and in the Bible between Jesus and his diciples. I found the book to be a vital tool in understanding the complexity and difficulty of establishing long term male frienships. This book surely sheds light on the missing link of masculine friendships. If we don't lock arms as the author illustrates using many examples, then we are destined to exit to the False Roads To Manhood, abandoning the essence of male friendship, share values, unselfish love, deep loyalty, and real transparency to reach authentic manhood.

A deep look into the relationship gap in male friendship.......2006-08-04

Locking Arms (Man - to - Man).......2000-07-06

Locking arms is a book that discusses those relationships/friendships that men share. The book was a pleasure to read and it really hit home because no matter how macho a man is, he never wants to face life alone. Stu Webber really touches the intimate side of Godly male friendships. How they develop and how they last. I highly recommend this book to any man desiring to dive deeper into true Godly manhood friendships. One chapter that touched me in particular was when Webber talked about the "military buddy" I thought back to my days in basic training and how they forced us to choose someone to be our buddy. We were to share some triumphs and some defeats during the weeks to come and even thought I was never in battle I still have very fond memories of those times and the friendships developed.

Plays: Man and Superman; Candida; Arms and the Man; Mrs Warren's Profession (Signet Classics)

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The best of GBS
A Good Shaw Overview

Plays: Man and Superman; Candida; Arms and the Man; Mrs Warren's Profession (Signet Classics)
George Bernard Shaw
Manufacturer: Signet Classics
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Binding: Paperback

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Spring Awakening

ASIN: 0451524349

Book Description

In Mrs. Warren's Profession, Arms and the Man, Candida, and Man and Superman, George Bernard Shaw satirizes society, military heroism, marriage, and the pursuit of man by woman. From a social, literary, and theatrical standpoint, these four plays are among the foremost dramas of the age-as intellectually stimulating as they are humorous.

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The best of GBS.......2001-03-02

This should be required reading just for the "Don Juan in Hell" act of Man and Superman --an excerpt "Your friends are all the dullest dogs I know. They are not beautiful: they are only decorated. They are not clean: they are only shaved and starched. They are not dignified: they are only fashionably dressed. They are not educated: they are only college passmen. They are not religious: they are only pewrenters. They are not moral: they are only conventional. They are not virtuous: they are only cowardly...."

One of my science teachers recited this famous speech in the lab one day, just to show off, and I started appreciating Shaw. Funny thing is that of all the playwrights, GBS is the best just to read. Except for Pygmalion and maybe Arms and the Man, most of Shaw's plays are too "talky" to stage well, but read like short stories. If you haven't read them, you are in for a treat.

A Good Shaw Overview.......2000-05-23

This would be an excellent collection to have for anyone looking for a taste of Shaw's basic philosophies about socialism--and of course, a good way of finding out how his writing suits you.

Some thought provoking social statements are made in all four plays, though some of the prefaces might be more informative about the author than the plays themselves. Great witticisms and depsite the sometimes heavy philosophy, the reading is light and quick. The last play, Man And Superman, perhaps his most significant play in terms of philosophy, pure and simple, would be fun reading but the socialist's handbook given at the end would definitely not be everyone's cup of tea, unless they're philosophy students. This can be skipped without spoiling the play though, which contains some of the most excellent dialogue I've come across in a play with philosophical overtones.

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Seven Stories Press is proud to release the first critical edition of Nelson Algren's masterpiece on the 50th anniversary of its publication in November 1949. Considered Algren's finest work, The Man with the Golden Arm recounts one man's self-destruction in Chicago's Polish ghetto. The novel's protagonist, Frankie Machine, remains a tragic American hero half a century after Algren created this gritty and relentlessly dark tale of modern urban society.

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Reading Nelson Algren.......2006-05-26

This is a wonderful book! Nelson Algren knocks spots off of his contemporaries;chiefly because he actually lived the lives of those he wrote about.
The language is fabulously arkane and is only just seeping into everyday usage.We now know that a 'mark' is a person about to be 'hustled'(ie conned and robbed) and thanks to TV poker we know what the punk has when he looks at 3 J's wired! Unfortuneately,we also know all the drug terms as well.
The plot is wafer thin and largely irrelevent-Frankie Machine kills Louie the pusher;his run ins with the law;his dead beat marriage and affair with Molly-O-;its the cast of division line Chicago slum dwellers that are everything.If you read this fishing for a plot to hook into,you'll soon get lost.But if you read each segmented paragraph as a short story in its own right that merges into a bigger picture;you can't fail to love this magnificent book.Dickens never had such a cast of characters to call on!

Dated novel that doesn't ring true on any level .......2006-03-19

I can accept that this book was a classic in its day and obviously you had to be there then to appreciate its shock value at the time. However, great literature should transcend the time that it was written in and should reach out and speak to future generations. There are plenty of novels from that era that do just that but The Man With The Golden Arm is not one of them. It is ponderous, turgid and lacks any sense of urgency and desperation that its central theme - heroin addiction - should necessitate. Situations and relationships are one-dimensional and cardboard-cutout-like rendering them thoroughly implausible. However, the real failure of this novel is in it's dreadfully antiquated 'hip speech', a failed attempt on the part of Algren to capture the street lingo of the time. Trying to capture speech patterns in print is a delicate task that needs to be executed with skill and precision for it to work, neither qualities which seem apparent here. Instead, it sounds false and clumsy, making the novel unnecessarily difficult to read.

Bottom Line: If you're looking for an accurate depiction of drug addiction in '50s America, you won't find it here.

Worth reading.......2005-12-27

I heard the title The Man with the Golden Arm long before I ever read the book or saw the movie. It's a beautiful, evocative title, but it also makes you think of something grotesque: a man with a shiny prosthetic. When I got older, and knew the story centered on a junkie, the connotation became even more disturbing: an arm jaundiced by the hypo. I was never much into addiction stories and Algren's book (purchased as a shiny new softcover back in the early 80s, when I was spending the greater part of my college loan money on the creation of a private library) sat on my shelf for more than 20 years.

It turns out that the book is quite a good read. Algren locates the source of dealer Frankie Machine's addiction in his WW2 service-he was wounded and got hooked on the morphine that eased the pain of his injury. The novel also makes clear, though, that in spite of his friends' admiration and awe of his Purple Heart, Frankie was no hero. A grunt's grunt, he remained three years a private.

While the novel tells the story of Frankie's several attempts to kick the stuff, what we get out of it is the tale of a loser in a community of losers, people the American dream has left behind: small-time swindlers, dwellers in fleabag tenements, drunks, and sweet girls who can't get a break Among the sad detritus of this universe, located around Chicago's West Division Street, Frankie Machine shines like a star, with his big talk and his talent (the "golden arm" refers to his sure skill dealing cards, which he hopes to transfer to playing the drums in a big band).

Still, his life spirals downward. And although the drugs are central, you can't help feeling that if it weren't morphine that did Frankie in, it would have been something else. At bottom, he doesn't believe he's worth saving; one of the achievements of the novel is that you end up feeling they're all worth saving, not just Frankie, but also his grimier fellows. Algren draws his characters with such vividness that he takes you beyond pity and amusement to pure empathy with their humanity.

No Work and No Play.......2004-02-27

I think this is one of the best novels ever written. People who say Algren romanticizes the poor have clearly not read the book properly, all he does is say they are human just as you. But describing them as low-lifes like some reviewers did, just shows that Algren's message did not come across. This book is about love for humanity. And that is ALL humanity, not just the part that's nicely educated and has a good job and doesn't rob you at night. One reviewer said that Frankie Machine should of just quit taking drugs and sought himself a nice job and everything would of turned out fine. How? Would Frankie be loved then, would his crippled wife be able to walk, would there be no loneliness and desperation. would it stop raining? Would it stop the El from going round and round? I'm sick and tired of people romanticizin' the rich.

LIKE A BLOW TO THE SOLAR PLEXUS!.......2002-10-30

The great Nelson Algren's powerful tale. A work of art. Chicago, down-and-outers struggling with their various demons. One of the finest of all novelists. Algren, as a human being, had heart, wit, intelligence...and it shows. Not many writers today can touch him, although I can think of one or two covering the same turf: trying to make sense out of this insanity called life: Charles Bukowski, George Orwell, Henry Miller, B. Traven (The Cottonpickers), Kirk Alex (Working the Hard Side of the Street), Dan Fante (Chump Change, Spitting Off Tall Buildings) et al. You might want to give N.A's Neon Wilderness a try as well, a terriric short story collection. Algren's books last because his words have meaning to us--and always will.

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Kalashnikov: The Arms and the Man

Manufacturer: Ian D. Skennerton
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Binding: Hardcover

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Release Date: 2001-12-01

Ancient Man: A Handbook of Puzzling Artifacts

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Well worth your time.

Ancient Man: A Handbook of Puzzling Artifacts
Arm Glen
Manufacturer: Sourcebook Project
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Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena

ASIN: 0915554038

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Well worth your time........2000-01-05

I first was introduced to W. Corliss when I read the Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena. At that time, I was sold on this resource. Corliss takes no stand, he merely reports the facts at hand according to the many reports by various researchers. I was particularly fond of the lack of parapsychic claptrap and UFO BS. This series is an honest evaluation of unexplained anamolies of many types. Each volume is complete unto itself, and fascinating. Every person who asked what I was reading was intrigued. To be uninterested in the subject is hard to understand if you have any spark of imagination and scientific inquiry of your own. Anyone with an active and alert mind will find something to take with them forever... Read them all, if you can find them...I am still looking for three more in the series...Why have they not been reprinted? Beats me...This volume covers ancient structures I never dreamed existed....from the tiny to the huge...ancient undeciphered writings, things out of place, and some are treated from both sides, belief and denial of their validity...Easy reading, and a hefty volume. A real page turner for me....If you love a mystery, take on this book..it contains hundreds of real ones....

Long Arm Quarterback: A New Football Team Sparks an Old Rivalry

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It was a very good book
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THe Long Arm Quarterback
THe Long Arm Quarterback
The Long Arm Quarterback

Long Arm Quarterback: A New Football Team Sparks an Old Rivalry
Matt Christopher
Manufacturer: Little, Brown Young Readers
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0316105627

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It was a very good book.......2005-09-29

The book that I read was very good it is about a kid by the name of cap wadell who love to play to play football and cap is in a little competition with jimmy cash for starting quarterback. but the real problemis ggranpa and jimmys grandfatherhave reignited an old football feud. and it start to affect the team

Catch This Book.......2003-11-05

The book I'm reviewing is The Long Arm Quarterback by Matt Christopher. I give this book four stars because it is well-written and a fun book to read. This book is about how Cap's grandpa starts a six man football league with the surrounding towns. Cap's grandpa is the coach for Cap's town. When the first practice came, Cap's grandpa found out that one of his players was his rival's grandson. Jimmy's grandpa and Cap's grandpa played against each other in a six man league during high school. Later on, Cap's grandpa finds out that Jimmy is also a quarterback along with Cap. Read this book and find out who will start at quarterback and if Cap's grandpa and Jimmy's grandpa will become friends.

THe Long Arm Quarterback.......2002-05-14

The book The Long Arm Quarterback is a good book. In the book they start a six man football team. There team is pretty good but they are not the best team in the leage. There are three or more book on football that Matt Christopher has writen. I would like to read more books on football that Matt Christopher has writen.

THe Long Arm Quarterback.......2002-05-14

The Long Arm Quarterback.......2002-05-14

I like football so this book was good to read. This book is very exciting. I would like to read more books like this one. I think there are lots of other book that are about football that Matt Christopher wrote.

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The Man With The Golden Arm
Nelson Algren
Manufacturer: Fawcett Crest
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000GOT7KO

Book Description

The doctors call it Munchausen by proxy, the  terrifying disease that causes parents to induce  illness in their own children. Now, in his most  frightening case, Dr. Alex Delaware may have to prove  that a child's own mother or father is making her  sick.

Twenty-one-month-old Cassie Jones  is bright, energetic, the picture of health. Yet  her parents rush her to the emergency room night  after night with medical symptoms no doctor can  explain. Cassie's parents seem sympathetic and  deeply concerned. Her favorite nurse is a model of  devotion. Yet when child psychologist Alex  Delaware is called in to investigate, instinct tells him  that one of them may be a monster.

Then  a physician at the hospital is brutally murdered.  A shadowy death is revealed. And Alex and his  friend LAPD detective Milo Sturgis have only hours  to uncover the link between these shocking events  and the fate of an innocent child.

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Twenty-one-month-old Cassie Jones is bright, energetic, the picture of health. Yet her parents rush her to the emergency room night after night with medical symptoms no doctor can explain. Cassie's parents seem sympathetic and deeply concerned. Her favorite nurse is a model of devotion. Yet when child psychologist Alex Delaware is called in to investigate, instinct tells him that one of them may be a monster.

Then a physician at the hospital is brutally murdered. A shadowy death is revealed. And Alex and his friend LAPD detective Milo Sturgis have only hours to uncover the link between these shocking events and the fate of an innocent child.

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Munchausen's by proxy.......2007-01-09

I found Devil's Waltz to be a fast, exciting read and can thoroughly recommend it. Psychologist/detective, Dr.Alex Delaware is called as a consultant to a case in a run down hospital in Los Angeles, where a 21 month old girl,Cassie Jones, is brought repeatedly, suffering from inexplicable symptoms, ranging from breathing difficulties to gastro intestinal problems. The doctors run all the usual tests on her but can find no obvious cause of her illnesses. Suspicion focuses on her mother, Cindy, a nervous young woman who is married to the son of a multi millionaire, Chuck Jones. Departments are being closed down at this particular hospital where the finances are now in the control of Jones, and the whole structure of the institution is being allowed to slide into decay. The ugly spectre of Munchausen's by proxy occurs to both Alex and the other doctors who monitor Cindy's visits to Cassie but can find no evidence to support their theory. Readers who love Jonathan Kellerman's work will relish this book.

Overdetailed.......2006-06-29

Perhaps the author is paid by the word, we get full details of carpet color and type, wallpaper colors, the artwork, name dropping at its worst, medical terms that I didn't know and weren't explained,Kellerman seems to get to the heart of the mystery too soon and then it drags and drags to the end, it will help the insomniacs to get some rest though.

I just love Milo........2006-06-09

This one starts off kind of dry - lots of technical psychobabble, but it
is interesting - in an arid kind of way. Alex is called in on a consult
to evaluate a situation involving a little 2 year old girl. Cassie has
been in and out of the hospital multiple times and no one can figure out
why. Is it a case of Munchausen by Proxy? Is Cassie's mother making her
own child ill just for attention? It's an ugly suspicion and Alex feels
very duplicitous in his evaluation - becoming friendly with Cindy, the
girl's mother, in order to spy on her, but the alternative is a dead
child, so Alex accepts the challenge.

The truth of the situation is even more heinous and when the bodies
start accumulating and the suspect list starts growing, Alex turns to
his old pal Milo for help and things get really interesting. Detective
Milo Sturgis has been demoted following an assault on a superior officer
and he's been relegated to a boring data processing position, but he's
moonlighting as a private detective and he uses the police computers for
research in order to help Alex with background info on all the players
in this potentially tragic drama. And drama it is, complete with cloak
and dagger shadow government involvement that borders on scary.

It's great watching Alex toss around all these conspiracy theories while
Milo puts it all on the line for his friend. As they both dig, the story
they uncover is more convoluted than they could have imagined and when
all is said and done, they get help from a very unexpected source.

Like I said, I just love Milo.

Kellerman At His Best!.......2005-12-31

This is my favorite Jonathan Kellerman novel. The book focuses on a disturbing story about Munchausen's Disease by Proxy. This book so quickly caught my interest, that I ended up doing my psych 101 paper on this disease. I had not heard of this disorder when I read the book. It was disturbing, intense, and tore away at your heart. I would definitely recommend this book! Munchausen's Disease seems to have become a more popular topic since I read this book. I have seen countless documentaries on, and it was also featured in the newest episode of House. It is a disturbing, yet intriguing disease, and this book delves straight into the ugliest form of it, Munchausen's Disease by Proxy.

A Devil of a read.......2005-10-24

Another classic from Kellerman! Kellerman's psychologist/sleuth Alex Delaware nimbly executes tricky steps of his own when called in to consult on the mysterious ailments afflicting a baby being seen at his training hospital in Los Angeles. In his seventh appearance (after Private Eyes ), Delaware is in top form, carefully pursuing the possibility that 21-month-old Cassie Jones may be the victim of Munchausen's Disease by Proxy, a complex syndrome in which a parent, usually the mother, secretly causes the symptoms that endanger the child. That Cassie is the only grandchild of the hospital's new CEO, a corporate hotshot who has demoralized the staff with cutbacks and a new administration of "paramilitary types," adds political twists to the case's knotty psychological aspects. After a doctor involved in computer research is murdered in the hospital parking lot, Delaware calls on his friend Milo, a gay LAPD homicide cop currently serving as an input clerk. They link an earlier murder to the hospital and then key into a secret federal investigation, all the while trying to keep Cassie safe. With familiar characters, including Delaware's woodworking girlfriend Robin, and some well-developed new ones, notably the hospital's thuggish security head and an uptight pediatric nurse, Kellerman steadily turns up the suspense, reserving some surprises to spring near the end of this intricate tale, the best of recent Alex Delaware stories.

The Devil's Waltz (Mira Historical Romance)

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Great read
Witty and great characters
This is what I'd call a classic guilty pleasure read 4 1/2 *
Resident Genius of Bad Boys dazzles yet again

The Devil's Waltz (Mira Historical Romance)
Anne Stuart
Manufacturer: Mira
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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When you dance with the devil, you hold hands with temptation . . .

Christian Montcalm was a practical man, if a destitute scoundrel, but his plan to bed and wed the delectable Miss Hetty Chipple would take care of that sticky wicket. However, there was a most intriguing obstacle to his success.

Annelise Kempton desired nothing more than to come between this despicable rogue and the fortune (and virtue) of her young charge. Certainly, Annelise understood the desperation that comes from hard times, but Montcalm would fail -- she would personally see to it. All that stood in her way was a man whose rakish charm could tempt a saint to sin, or consign a confirmed spinster to sleepless nights of longing . . . to give the devil his due.

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Great heartwarming story.......2007-08-28

I love Anne Stuart!!! I loved Christian Montcalms character in this book. I felt bad for him because of what happened to his family. He also had a sweet side to him that he tried very hard to keep inside. The story was cute involving Hetty Chipple. I also enjoyed Annelises strict demeanor that softened in time.

I felt like I knew the characters. Great time.

Great read.......2007-05-20

Anne Stuart is an author whose books I will buy without even reading what they're about. She rarely disappoints. With her you know what you're going to get and that's great because you want it. Badly. And with this one she delivers it.

Anne's plot are usually not very complicated but it doesn't matter because the characters and their connection is what really shines through. I loved this couple together and was surprised to find a lot of humor in the book.
I loved it.

Witty and great characters.......2007-04-15

I want to give the first half of this book 5 stars, but the second half pulls it down to 4. I love the writing, it's witty and funny. This book is not like the usual historical romance: the hero is not a 'do - gooder' and the heroine is sharp tongued.

I liked how the hero reluctantly fell in love with the heroine, but near the ending, his actions deviated from that notion for a bit, which was irritating. The heroine was a bit bland at the end.

The suspense was really good.

This is what I'd call a classic guilty pleasure read 4 1/2 *.......2006-08-23

Annelise Kempton is 29, on the shelf and happy to remain that way. Though highborn, she's pretty much destitute and accepts a post at the Chipple residence where she will guide young Hetty Chipple, an extraordinary beauty who is clueless when it comes to matters of respectibility, so that she will find a reputable husband. Annelise has her work cut out for her. Hetty may be the most beautiful creature alive but she's also young and naive and too tempting a morsel for a destitute rake named Christian Montcalm. Annelise is bound and determined to keep Hetty away from those tempting lips of Christian and is annoyed when she finds herself attracted to him (guess she thought she was immune). Christian is just as attracted to Annelise but then Christian seems to be attracted to anything female . . .

This book has wit and sparkle and a nice battle of wills that most of the romances I've tried to read in the past few years lack and held my attention from beginning to end. The hero continued to be an unapologetic jerk throughout the story but I think that's what made him so attractive to me. I couldn't wait to turn the pages to see what awful thing he was going to say and/or do next ;) If the end wraps everything up a little too unbelievably for me that's okay because it entertained me and that's why I continue to read.

Resident Genius of Bad Boys dazzles yet again.......2006-06-03

Stuart gives you a double-dose of true historical romance. She takes the old formula of the beautiful, arrogant rake who falls for the dowdy spinster heroine. With typical Stuart Magic that has kept me spellbound since my first Stuart book, To Love a Dark Lord, she takes the old and makes it new, yet once more.

I love Stuart. She is the Resident Genius of Bad Boys. She makes no apologies for their dark, dangerous and often deadly nature. She knows men too well to try to do that. Her males are selfish, callused and often makes you wonder why anyone would put up with, much less fall for him. Something lasses raised on the kinder-gentler Historicals of today fail to understand - sexual attraction is the forbidden, the male that mama warns you against.

Another of Stuart's sexy studs, Christian Montcalm is lethally sensual rake of the ton. He embraces his lack of morals, courts them, only he faces ruin unless he marries a rich heiress. Enters the perfect target, Miss Hetty Chipple. She is the lovely daughter of a got-rocks shipping magnate. Everything seems perfect to him. He is gorgeous and dear Hetty wants the prettiest pony daddy's money can buy. Should be a match made in ton heaven...right? Well, we all know there's going to be problems. This time it's Miss Annelise Kempton. She is the less-than-perfect spinster hired to chaperon Hetty and she feels a fortune-hunting pretty boy isn't what Hetty needs.

Firmly on the shelf, Annelise is not pretty, too tall and had no money. Even so, our sexy lad still cannot help but be drawn by her intelligence, even though he wants to strangle her for interfering with his plans.

I adore men, love their true nature, and Stuart always taps into that. Christian is another of her gamma rogue males you want to slap, then kiss. Naturally, Stuart paints with dark strokes his inner nature, though maybe with a slight more mellowness as some of her other dark and daring dudes.

Stuart reminds us of the roots of historical romance, and shows she can still turn the deft party trick, and do it again in style.

Jonathan Kellerman : Two Complete (Alex Delaware) Novels : Devil's Waltz / Bad Love

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Jonathan Kellerman : Two Complete (Alex Delaware) Novels : Devil's Waltz / Bad Love
Jonathan Kellerman
Manufacturer: Wings
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Binding: Hardcover

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Self-Defense (Alex Delaware)
Time Bomb (Alex Delaware)
Blood Test (Alex Delaware)
Over the Edge (Alex Delaware)
The Web (Alex Delaware)

ASIN: 0517221969
Release Date: 2003-05-06

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New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman is one of the world's most popular writers, with tens of millions of his books in print in two dozen languages. He has brought his expertise as a child psychologist to numerous tales of suspense, including fourteen critically acclaimed and bestselling novels featuring child psychologist sleuth Alex Delaware. Now, for the first time, here are two of his popular Alex Delaware books in one volume. Taunt, penetrating, terrifying, Devil's Waltz and Bad Love are Kellerman at his best. From the hospital to the street, Delaware follows mysterious killers in two of the most suspenseful works ever, tracking them down through a combination of keen perception and psychological expertise. In Devil's Waltz, Delaware explores a dark side of parental love. In Bad Love, Delaware follows the twisted logic of a stalker's mind games, aware that next the stalker may be coming for him. In both, weaving a web of disturbing events that will thrill and captivate as he reveals their stunning conclusions.

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Very good read........2007-08-31

As usual Mr Kellerman kept me glued to the pages. I couldn't put
the book down.

Jonathan Kellerman- Devil's Waltz/Bad Love.......2007-08-03

Both of these novels are wonderful. I could not put the book down! I recommend Jonathan Kellerman to anyone who loves mysteries. He's the best!

two for one.......2007-07-20

This was a good read made even better since it was two books in one. Glad I got it!

5 Titles in Alex Delaware Novels (6-10) : Private Eyes - Devil's Waltz - Bad Love - Self-defense - The Web

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5 Titles in Alex Delaware Novels (6-10) : Private Eyes - Devil's Waltz - Bad Love - Self-defense - The Web
Jonathan Kellerman
Manufacturer: Bantam
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000JPVDU2

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5 massmarket paperback Titles in Alex Delaware Novels (6-10) : Private Eyes - Devil's Waltz - Bad Love - Self-defense - The Web

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Devil's Waltz

Manufacturer: Bantam Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000GRMD8Y

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Devil's Waltz
Jonathan Kellerman
Manufacturer: Bantam
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000HL8Z1I

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Devil's Waltz
Jonathan Kellerman
Manufacturer: Bantam Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000P1BN3M

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Devil's Waltz

Manufacturer: Little, Brown
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000FCCKBK

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From Publishers WeeklyKellerman's psychologist/sleuth Alex Delaware nimbly executes tricky steps of his own when called in to consult on the mysterious ailments afflicting a baby being seen at his training hospital in Los Angeles. In his seventh appearance (after Private Eyes), Delaware is in top form, carefully pursuing the possibility that 21-month-old Cassie Jones may be the victim of Munchausen's Disease by Proxy, a complex syndrome in which a parent, usually the mother, secretly causes the symptoms that endanger the child. That Cassie is the only grandchild of the hospital's new CEO, a corporate hotshot who has demoralized the staff with cutbacks and a new administration of "paramilitary types," adds political twists to the case's knotty psychological aspects. After a doctor involved in computer research is murdered in the hospital parking lot, Delaware calls on his friend Milo, a gay LAPD homicide cop currently serving as an input clerk. They link an earlier murder to the hospital and then key into a secret federal investigation, all the while trying to keep Cassie safe. With familiar characters, including Delaware's woodworking girlfriend Robin, and some well-developed new ones, notably the hospital's thuggish security head and an uptight pediatric nurse, Kellerman steadily turns up the suspense, reserving some surprises to spring near the end of this intricate tale, the best of recent Alex Delaware stories.

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Devil's Waltz
Jonathan Kellerman
Manufacturer: Bantam Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000S87RVY

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Devil's Waltz
Jonathan Kellerman
Manufacturer: Bantam
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OFND9G

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