Once Lost (Alias)

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A strain of the deadly Marburg virus has come up for sale on the black market, and the seller has showcased the wares by infecting an African village. APO has one potential lead: a researcher named Magrite whose success in treating Marburg victims may be the reason for his sudden disappearance.

Out in the field again, Agent Sydney Bristow and her father, Jack, close in on the kidnapper, but determining Magrite's location is only the first challenge in a chain of obstacles. Magrite has a dark secret that forces Sydney to confront her past, even as APO races to stop the distribution of a new and terrifying weapon.

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Good Alias book.......2006-06-29

Taking place in season four of Alias, this book does a good job of maintaining the setting. Mostly the book is about Sydney and the rest of APO dealing with the kidnapping of a scientist who has the potential cure to a deadly biological weapon. The locations featured in this book are South Africa, Egypt, India, and Tibet. A secondary storyline deals with Sydney's emotional reactions to the scientist's secret daughter, her own unresolved issues with Jack and Sloane, and her continued bumpy relationship with Vaughn after the Lauren ordeal.

This book is definitely one of the best APO books so far. Kirsten Beyer writes the book with emotional intensity and the characters are well-drawn and fitting with the show, except for Sloane. Overall a very enjoyable action-full story with a few hug-tugging moments.

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Once Upon a Mix-Up (Full House Sisters)
Carol Ellis
Manufacturer: Simon Spotlight
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0671040944

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Stephanie is selling jewelry at a thrift sale to benefit underprivileged kids. Totally cool -- except when she realizes she accidentally sold a valuable antique necklace -- for twenty-five cents!

Stephanie promises that one way or another she'll get it back. But can she find the necklace -- or is it lost forever?

Michelle's fourth-grade class is performing Cinderella -- and Michelle is the star! Too bad the boy who is playing Prince Charming is a terrible actor.

No sweat. Michelle has a plan! She's going to help Prince Charming by practicing with him -- all the time. There's only one problem: Michelle doesn't realize that once she puts her plan into action, it's going to backfire in a way she never expected!

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There Once Was a Boy Called Tashi (Tashi series)
Anna Fienberg , and Barbara Fienberg
Manufacturer: Allen & Unwin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Tashi and the Ghosts (Tashi series)

ASIN: 1741141982

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Adventurous little Tashi faces a terrible ogre who is threatening his village in this 12th installment of the Tashi series. As he endeavors to recover the ogre’s stolen pet from the evil Baron and protect his village from being eaten, Tashi's tales of derring-do convey themes of bravery, ingenuity, and loyalty.

Lost Hunger: Once Bitten...Forever Alive: Part I of The Hunger Series

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It's only going to get better!!!!!!!!!
A MUST READ
Lost hunger
One of the Best
Wonderful Story

Lost Hunger: Once Bitten...Forever Alive: Part I of The Hunger Series
Angelina M. Robinson
Manufacturer: AuthorHouse
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Can you, can I possess true power? This is a question that flashes in everyone's mind at one point or another. This is also a question that a young woman, Daenara Tereus struggles with everyday, her dreams of becoming more than mortal. She is clairvoyant and speaks telepathically with a friend she has had since childhood. She also has an uncanny knack for healing from wounds overnight even when they are at their worst. Now that her parent's are deceased, she moves into the family estate after being sheltered for years in the mountains by her overseer Vincent. Her whole life she has been haunted by an unknown presence, however since her move it has grown stronger and with it her undying will to know who or what it is.

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It's only going to get better!!!!!!!!!.......2005-12-06

I can truly say that I am anticipating the next edition to this wonderful series. It has had me on the edge the whole time during reading and wanting the next more and more!!!!!

A MUST READ.......2005-12-02

THIS IS A WONDERFUL BOOK. VERY WELL WRITTEN. KEEPS YOU ON EDGE.

Lost hunger.......2005-08-10

Wow !! Great Book .This is A must Read Book . I Can't wait to Sink my Teeth into The next One !!!!

One of the Best.......2005-04-11

Picked up this book this past weekend and could not put it down. Storyline and characters bring you into their world and won't let go. I cannot wait until the next installment of the series.

Wonderful Story.......2005-03-02

This book is one of a kind. Very unique storyline, not to mention the characters involved. I would love to read more!

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Bulletin I Once Was Lost

Manufacturer: B&H Publishing Group
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

Can a Soul Once Genuinely Saved Ever Be Eternally Lost?

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Can a Soul Once Genuinely Saved Ever Be Eternally Lost?

Manufacturer: Evangelist E. T. Quanabush
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Pamphlet
ASIN: B000I2L73Y

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Contents include: Four groups of religionists, Can a child of God be unborn? Can a Christian perish? Can a sheep remain out of the fold? Is Christ married to the backslider? The progress of Bible Doctrines, Once save...always saved? Once in the Covenant...always in the Covenant? Were Apostates never saved? Eternal Life

Falling from grace: Can a Christian once saved fall away and be lost?

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Falling from grace: Can a Christian once saved fall away and be lost?
J. R Beveridge
Manufacturer: Family Bible League
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B00089Y6ZI

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I Once Was Lost
Sandra Bruce
Manufacturer: Book Guild Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Lost Seasons: The Once And Future Legends Of Mythic Baseball

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NOT JUST FOR GUYS
HOLY BEANBALL!

Lost Seasons: The Once And Future Legends Of Mythic Baseball
Professor Peter Bagnolo
Manufacturer: PublishAmerica
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1413723446

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NOT JUST FOR GUYS.......2004-12-21

One of the things I liked about this book is that the women in the story are characterized very well and show great strength under duress with very believable reactions. It's a spiritual baseball fantasy. Archeologists in the year 10064 AD find gigantic stadiums and ancient CDs and DVDs in the dense forests of which were once North America. The disks tell the story of a sports reporter, who recoils from the greed and corruption of professional baseball. In a drunken stupor he experiences what he thought was a series of dreams in which a group calling themselves "The Dead Players Union," are reincarnated and sent to Earth as adolescents. Not consciously aware of their origins, they experience horrifying nightmares of their previous lives and deaths. They are commissioned by Heaven to play baseball and restore its innocence, which is apparently tied to the innocence of America. The reporter Ned, and his professor nephew uncover more evidence of the players' reincarnation after tracking down various players and seeing tapes owned by an old Black player of the "Shadow Baseball Leagues" who recognizes his dead father playing baseball in the major leagues 50 years after his death. One black and one Caucasian player team up with all-time baseball greats, including the black players who were denied access to professional baseball prior to 1947. Will the reporter have the proof he needs to make public with what he's learned? Or will Heaven try to stop him? The book is about a world driven off track by a corrupt administration led by a maniacal president and corrupt, theocratic nutcases and an electorate full of materialism and ridiculously misinterpreted ideas about God. The heaven-sent players, encountering greed-infested agents, players, managers, and owners, try to infuse them with a change of heart and save the world in the process. And that is only the first half of the book!
The author not only calls out the corporate criminals, but offers a variety of SOLUTIONS to a good many of America's and world problems. His take on world events and the present corruption of the sports and entertainment industries is first class and insightful. I especially liked the relationship of the hero's first love and her mentor grandmother. A very good read-there is baseball, sex, love and adventure. I give it 4.5 stars for storytelling, 5 stars for imagination.

HOLY BEANBALL!.......2004-11-13

Boy, this is one interesting story. It starts out with angels blasting most of life on planet earth out of existence leaving about 2% of the world population still living. More than 10,000 years later some archeolgists trudging through a vast jungle (the remains of North America and finding some colloseums overgrown like Sleeping Beauties castle. They find some CDS/DVDs that explain what happened 10,000 years ago. The long and short of it is that God takes control of events on earth being convinced that like King Arthur and Camelot, Baseball, not the king is synonomous with the land and sends down deceased ballplayers because God's archangels believe that professional baseball is corrupt and if it is cleaned up, so will be the nation. The players are charged with setting things straight and there is some interesting dialogue as they negotiiate with Heaven about going back to earth, like a parody of the baseball players unions. The action switches to a group of young rookies who challenge every record in the books and at the same time set examples for the rest. Two young player, one black, one white set the pace for the rest of the league in an exciting pennant race, fall in love, confront their own boogiemen and follow Jesus' most important ethic of rejecting the "Temptation in the wilderness" standing up against corruption no matter what the cost, an ethic soft-souped by organized religions for their own purposes. A reporter dreams about the whole thing and then spends the rest of the season trying to prove that the new players are reincarnated and in trying to produce a show on cable about the whole thing. there are some very steamy love affairs, lots of walk-off homeruns and a battle against a tyrant president and criminal team owners. I thought the story was one of the better fables I have read and the true Christian ethic of tolerance and inclusivity overrides that of the hypocritical and false front some try to cloak the name of God in. I know the author's work from his non-fiction and once took a class with him and my girlfriend thinks that he writes about women like a guy who really knows the female perspective very well.
The romances that succeed and those that fail are a surprise and the ending is interesting and sounds like there may be a sequel coming.
I give it 4+ stars.

Once for the Last Bandit: New and Lost Poems by Samuel Hazo.

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Once for the Last Bandit: New and Lost Poems by Samuel Hazo.
Samuel Hazo
Manufacturer: see notes for publisher info
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000M3POAQ

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Ragnarok and Roll!.......2000-12-02

I was given a battered copy of this book by a friend of mine in sixth grade. Just two pages in, and I knew I was hooked.

Words really cannot describe what an amazing gift Esther Friesner has for humorous fantasy--and this trilogy, of which this is the third volume, is her most side-splitting work. _Unicorn U._ is arguably the best of the three. The chapter titles alone are memorable; the puns are *awful*, and if the plot doesn't have you laughing out loud at least five times, I'll eat a bug. The characters are funny enough that they'd be worth reading about if they did nothing but sit around all day... and, of course, they have considerably more to keep them busy than that. There's an Apocalypse to stop, after all.

And as if these qualities weren't recommendation enough, _Unicorn U._ is quite possibly the novel of the trilogy that's richest in meaning, moral, and message--all without spoiling the mood or missing a beat. While I might not put it into the hands of a child (a lot of swearing happens), I'd certainly say that it would be a worthwhile read for young adults. It's funny enough to hold attention without lacking substance beneath the laughs.

If you can find a copy of this book anywhere, buy it. Even if you haven't read the first two, buy it. And then spend years hunting for the others if you must. This is definitely my favorite comic fantasy series, and Esther Friesner deserves all commendations for being able to mesh serious issues with humor in a manner unmatched by anyone else.

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Lovely New Children's Book

A simple, joyful picturebook
Legendary Unicorn
Weigelt U. , and Gukova J.
Manufacturer: North-South
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0735819629

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Every even the animals gather in a clearing in the forest to tell stories -- fairy tales, myths and legends, fantasies filled with magic and wonder. One evening as Hedgehog heads for the gathering, he sees something extraordinary -- a unicorn drinking from the stream! He is astonished. But when he tells the other animals about it, they assure him that he is mistaken. "The unicorn is just a legend," they say, "a myth. In reality there are no unicorns." Soon, Hedgehog himself no longer believes his own eyes. Suddenly, there is something very wrong in the forest. The birds no longer sing, the babbling stream is silent, all seems dim and dull. And when the animals meet to share stories, they discover that they have forgotten them all. Luminous, lovely paintings illustrated this enchanted tale about the power of belief and the wonder of the legendary unicorn.

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Lovely New Children's Book.......2004-12-07

Every night, the animals of the forest gather together in a small clearing to tell stories to each other. Fairy tales, legends, myths, anything that sounds interesting. However, one evening, as hedgehog is heading for the gathering, he sees something unheard of - a young unicorn sipping water from the stream! Hedgehog couldn't be more shocked, so he tells the other animals to see what they think, but the other animals don't believe hedgehog, for they feel that the unicorn is nothing more than a legend. Soon, the animals have even convinced hedgehog that he saw nothing. But then things begin to change, the animals have forgotten all of the stories they used to share with one another, the stream is silent, and the birds are no longer singing. Now the animals must try to get the forest back to normal, or everything will be boring.

As an avid fan of any book involving unicorns, I knew that I would love Udo Weigelt's THE LEGENDARY UNICORN. Filled with lovely prose, and magical illustrations by Julia Gukova, depicting fairy-like colors and magic, this is sure to win a place in the hearts of children and their parents.

Erika Sorocco
Book Review Columnist for The Community Bugle Newspaper

A simple, joyful picturebook.......2004-12-07

Udo Weigelt's The Legendary Unicorn is a simple, joyful picturebook that reinforces the importance of belief and dreams. A hedgehog glimpses a magical beast in the forest and tells his forest friends; they denounce his claims as silly, but with that denoucement comes a change in their woods. Things are less vibrant, more dreary and ordinary, as if magic is seeping from the land. The only way to bring that magic back is through belief, storytelling, sharing, and hope. Beautiful, soft color illustrations by Julia Gukova bring this enchanting tale to life.

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Jim Bridger's Alarm (A Unicorn Book)
Paul Fleischman
Manufacturer: Dutton Juvenile
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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U is for Unicorn

U Is for Unicorn (Quilters Workshop)
Eileen Campbell
Manufacturer: Quilters Resource
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1863433325

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U is for Unicorn.......2005-03-25

This book is simply phenominal. The designs are beautiful and the instructions are straight forward and easy to follow. Nothing is left out in this publication.

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The Well of the Unicorn
George U Fletcher
Manufacturer: William Sloan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000KK7YF4

The Well of the Unicorn (The Garland Library of Science Fiction)

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Ian Myles Slater on: Confusion Confounded for a Great Book

The Well of the Unicorn (The Garland Library of Science Fiction)
George U. Fletcher
Manufacturer: Taylor & Francis
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Ian Myles Slater on: Confusion Confounded for a Great Book.......2004-10-02

"The Well of the Unicorn" was first published by William Sloane Associates in 1948, as by the previously unknown author, George U. Fletcher. It featured a lovely dust jacket, a frontispiece map, and inset maps as chapter headings, the beautiful work of Rafael Palacios, whose maps had graced many other books, including some highly-regarded military histories by Fletcher Pratt. Considerable trouble had obviously been taken to produce the book, and many of its readers eventually would agree that it was worth it -- when they had a chance to see it.

A story of revolution and love in a world both like and unlike medieval Europe, it might have reached a wide audience, at least by the pre-Tolkien standards for fantasy. Although highly original in many ways, it acknowledged a debt to Lord Dunsany's play, "King Argimenes and the Unknown Warrior," the events of which were supposed to lie in the book's distant past; and it fairly clearly reacted to the vague political and military thinking in E.R. Eddison's "The Worm Ouroboros." (As was later pointed out in a fine critical essay by Dave Hulan, "Of Worms and Unicorns" -- reprinted in "The Conan Grimoire" [Mirage] and "The Spell of Conan" [Ace], if you can find copies.)

However, in a masterpiece of poor judgment, someone at Sloane had decided that, since the ACTUAL author, Fletcher Pratt, already HAD a major reputation as a military HISTORIAN, his new FANTASY novel should be published under a pen name; something about not confusing readers.

This decision also ignored Pratt's *other* reputation as a science fiction and fantasy novelist -- the latter usually in collaboration with L. Sprague de Camp (who later desribed the origin of the pseudonym in several articles and books). Sloane Associates also insisted on a clunking "Publisher's Foreword" in addition to the "Author's Note" -- apparently, someone was having second thoughts about a novel of war, politics, love, sex, and magic in a place for which maps had to be invented!. (They might have better asked for revisions in a couple of paragraphs, in which, as de Camp put it, an "excess of subtlety" can leave readers confused about elapsed time.)

As a result, the new book by "George U. Fletcher" was largely ignored at the time by not one but two groups of readers. Fans of military history, who might have enjoyed Pratt's variations on the lessons pointed out in his non-fiction, had no reason to look at it. Mr. Fletcher was also a complete unknown to those who mourned the loss of "Unknown Worlds," the magazine that had published most of Pratt's fantasy in the early 1940s. Pratt (1897-1956) didn't keep his authorship a secret, but this was no great help to people who learned of it after the book was out of print. Pratt's obituary in "The New York Times," which did mention his science fiction, described "The Well of the Unicorn" as "straight fiction," which (at best) suggests a guess at its contents. (It now may be necessary to warn against confusion with the group "The Fletcher Pratt" -- search engines, at least, have trouble with the distinction.)

"The Well of the Unicorn" finally appeared under the author's own name in a Lancer Books paperback in 1968, with a new, intelligent, Introduction by Baird Searles, new cover art (uncredited, but very attractive), and the frontispiece map (not too badly reproduced in the smaller format). Lancer, which was then issuing the Robert E. Howard Conan stories as edited by L. Sprague de Camp, foundered for complex reasons a few years later, and "The Well of the Unicorn" was again unavailable. In the meantime, it had missed being included in the Ballantine Books Adult Fantasy series, which did include another of Pratt's major fantasy novels, "The Blue Star."

In 1975, Garland included it in a library-oriented series of high-quality reprintings of classic science fiction and fantasy. They had the good taste to go back to the Sloane edition, reproducing it in full (except for the dust jacket). Unhappily, this edition reverted to the "George U. Fletcher" pseudonym on the title page and cover, so it was again likely to be missed by anyone looking for books by Pratt. It was also rather expensive (by *1975* standards for science fiction and fantasy), although not unreasonably so; the paper and binding were of far more durable quality than the usual acidic stock.

Fortunately, Del Rey Books (the then-recent science fiction and fantasy imprint of Ballantine Books, which had been acquired by Random House) picked up the title in paperback in 1976 -- not a big surprise, because Lester del Rey had been involved in the Garland "Library of Science Fiction" project. It was back under the author's real name, and included the chapter heading maps (although not the excellent Searles Introduction from the Lancer edition), and dropped the clearly unnecessary Sloane Foreword and its "explanation."

As originally published, the Del Rey edition had a cover by the Brothers Hildebrandt. This depicts an actual scene from the book quite accurately, but personally I have always thought it discouragingly ugly as a composition. (The Sea Demon is appropriately unpleasant-looking, but that is a different matter.) The frontispiece map was printed on the inside front and back covers, which made for very clear reproduction.

An elegant Darrell Sweet cover, showing the major characters in a wilderness landscape, graced the book from the second Del Rey printing (1979) on; in this and later printings, the frontispiece map was again on a regular page. The Sweet cover is the version shown in the current (October 2004) Amazon listing for the Del Rey edition, which is not necessarily what you will get if you order a used copy without checking its date carefully. And, unfortunately, at least for now, it seems that a used copy is what you will have to order, in any American edition. "The Well of the Unicorn" was most recently reprinted in a British edition in 2001, as part of the Gollancz Fantasy Masterworks series (not seen); this edition can be found on the Amazon.co.uk site, but does not seem to be available (officially) in the U.S.

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