Criss Cross (Newbery Medal Book)

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She wished something would happen. Something good. To her. Looking at the bright, fuzzy picture in the magazine, she thought, Something like that. Checking her wish for loopholes, she found one. Hoping it wasn"t too late, she thought the word soon.

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Criss Cross review kcs.......2007-10-03

When people grow up, they start looking at their friends differently. This is what's happening to a girl named Debbie, whose the main character in this book. I'm not sure where this book takes place, but it's in modern day times.

Debbie's growing up in this book, and she starts to look at her friends, Lenny, and Hector differently. Meanwhile in this book, Lenny and Hector are having problems of their own with growing up, and seeing people differently.

The meaning of this title is a radio show that Debbie, Lenny, and Hector all listen to together. I liked this book, but it's hard to explain the plot, because there isn't any real summary. It's about everyday life in this book. The pacing was good though, it was steady throughout the whole book.

One reason I really liked this book though, is because I liked the way Lynn Rae Perkins wrote this book. She wrote it in everyday life, but you can really relate to it, and what the people are thinking. This book probably wasn't written in a christian perspective. The theme is hard in this book too, but in the end, it's basically to stay true to your friends.

Criss Cross kcs.......2007-09-27

this book is about a 14 year old girl named Debbie who wishes something great woud happen to her. Her other friend Hector who is aware of things around him tells the story in his point of view. In the begining of this story, Debbie loses her neckllace and is passed to differn't characters in this story. Lyne Rae Perkins fills this exciting book with differn't types of questions, poems, haiku, and pictures to get the reader flowing with this book.

I Love Newberry Books, usually.......2007-08-03

I usually love Newberry books, even the honor books, which are often, in my opinion, better than the award winner. So I felt fortunate to find Criss Cross on our library's shelf. Now after trying to slog through this piece of drivel I feel doubly fortunate that I didn't buy it. What happened to having a point to one's writing? What about a little, even a little, action? And to echo what other reviewers have mentioned--where's the plot? I'll never purchase another Newberry Award Winner without first having checked it out of the library to see if it's worth the price, which this one definitely wasn't--not even on a clearance table.

Book Review.......2007-05-25

I found Criss Cross to have a very believable plot, because most of the book is just about everyday life. I could connect to the characters because their lives remind me of mine. They did the type of things I like to do during the summer, hanging out with friends and relaxing. I would definitely read another book by this author, because I enjoyed this book. I would recommend this book to others, because it is a great book that anyone could connect to.

Criss Cross Development.......2007-05-14

Criss Cross, by Lynne Rae Perkins, is written from the point of view of growing girl named Debbie. Not only is she growing physically, but also mentally. As she explores herself and tries to find meaning in her simple yet confusing life, she discovers many new people who shape her personally. At the beginning of the book, it says "She wished something would happen." Debbie felt extremely bored with her life. This was probably because no one loved her. As she searched for a lover, she came closer and closer to realizing that this wasn't necessary. In the end of the book, she finally concluded that she shouldn't be so eager to grow up, and should enjoy her life in whichever direction it took her. Debbie goes on new adventures and meets new people all throughout the book, and while she develops through experience, the reader develops a sense of understanding for her, and grows with her. This book is certainly worth reading.

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Trouble
WOW
Drama all over the place
Criss Cross
Crossed

The Criss Cross
Crystal Lacey Winslow
Manufacturer: Melodrama Publishing
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ASIN: 0971702128

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Nikki Ling is half black and Japanese. Shes independent, street-smart and the daughter of a prostitute. Living in the mean streets of East New York and Bedford Stuyvesant Brooklyn shes forced to make a living the only what she knows how. When a wealthy, South African diplomat asks for her hand in marriage things seem to get brighter. Until she realizes that the soft-spoken, reserved, gentleman is pathological, kinky, and sadistic. One day she meets a mysterious stranger who approaches her with the Criss Cross. Is the Criss Cross her ticket to a better life? Or will the Criss Cross ultimately become the double cross? Wait! The Criss Cross isnt done yet! The old gang from Life, Love Loneliness have some unfinished business to resolve. In this page-turning novel see how the drama unfolds for Lyric, Lacey, Madison, Joshua, and Estelle.

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Trouble.......2007-06-08

The Criss Cross was an awesome read. It keep me on the edge of my seat and turning pages. I admire all of Crystal Lacey Winslow's books - she definitely is the "Queen of Melodrama". I will continue to read all of Crystal's books in the future. Keep up the good work!

Nikkisi Ling is a half Japanese and African American. She grew up a fast life - without a mother nor father. She was forced to become an adult without wanting the responsibility. She had her sister, Noki Ling - also half Japanese and half African American. Noki was a brat with spoiled ways. She was raised with her foster parents until she became too promiscuous.

Kapri Henderson was Nikkisi best friend - until the end.

Ivanka Zamora is a psychomaniac who has serious mental problems.

The old cast from "Life, Love, and Loneliness" - Joshua Tune, Lacey Devaney, Madison Michael, Portia Jones, and Estelle Cardinale return with more trouble.

This was the most interesting, page-turner, and drama packed book read this year. Stand up and applaued Crystal for a job well done!

WOW.......2007-05-27

This book grabbed my attention from the beginning to the end. I was left speechless and in awe of how this author had so much going on and I was still able to follow it without getting confused. The criss cross was a trip and I enjoyed this book so much!!! This is the second book I read by this author and I have not been disappointed. Keep up the good work. You have a fan here!!!!!!!!!!!

Drama all over the place.......2007-02-11

I thought that Life Love and Loneliness was real good.But The Criss Cross...that's another story.For starters,it took me forever to finish.Second there was entirely too much drama going on.The story is all over the place.Some of the things in the book just didn't add up.It does mention the old crew but for it to center around the new characters it focus entirely too much on Nikki, whom got on my nerves through out the whole book when it should have focused on all of the characters.Although there were 110 short short chapters it really wasn't called for.

Criss Cross .......2007-02-07

Nikki and Noki are sisters who had a Japanese mother and an African American father. After Nikki and Noki's prostitute mother killed herself the girls were put in foster care. Nikki had the strong African features, while Noki could pass for Japanese.

Its amazing how two sisters with the same parents can be so different? From childhood to adult Nikki loved and tried to take care of her sister anyway she could; even if it meant selling herself to do it.

Noki was ashamed of her sister, not just because of the prostitution, but because she looked black. She hated Nikki so much that she didn't claim her as her sister. All Noki wanted was money and would do anything to get it.

This book was a good read with many characters and a lot of scheming and deception.

Crossed.......2006-12-01

Nikkisi Ling Okayo has seen her share of struggle. She will not let herself and most importantly her little sister Noki continue with their meager living situation. Being ridiculed and raped at a young age at the hand's of her foster parent, Nikki takes her small life savings and becomes what she so hated about her mother, a prostitute. Selling her body and stealing from others is not what she wanted to do in life but in order to help her sister out of the foster system, she must do what she has to do. Growing up and realizing that she doesn't have to sell herself so cheap she invites the most distinguished men into her bedroom and she receives thousands of dollars as an escort. Knowing that Noki is ashamed of her, Nikki finally takes the hand of one of her suitors only to end up with a trail of bodies following her and her life on the line.

Noki Ling has despised her sister for years. Even though they have the same mother and father, Noki inherited her mother's Asian features, while Nikki inherited their African-American father's. Ashamed of being black, Noki will not entertain the fact that Nikki is her sister. As she leaves the life that she loved with her foster family to be taken care of by Noki, she ultimately seeks the revenge that she has been holding for so long.

Criss Cross is full of dynamic hatred and suspense that has you are flipping the pages at a rapid pace. Kudos to Ms. Winslow.

4.5

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Page turner!
Chilling!!!(4.5 stars)
Page-Turner
RAW Rating: 4.5 - Serial killer on the loose!
You Got To Have Faith

Criss Cross
Evie Rhodes
Manufacturer: Kensington
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ASIN: 0758208723

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Page turner!.......2006-04-08

Twins born within minutes of each other, Shaughn and Micah. One is the ultimate good. The other is the spawn of Criss Cross, the ultimate evil. But which is which?

There are serial murders being committed by a sadistic psychopath. Micah is the officer in charge of the investigations. He has a good track record for catching murderers, but now there is a web of doubt surrounding him. Could he be the murderer? He does have nightmares where he is there. He sees the crime being done. Are they just nightmares?

It is said that if the power of the twins is united, then Criss Cross will rule the earth. As the suspense grow,s the reader is drawn into the classic battle of good and evil. It's almost impossible to put down once started.

Armchair Interviews says: Though it is a classic battle of good and evil, Evie Rhodes' skillful writing keeps the pages turning.

Chilling!!!(4.5 stars).......2006-04-07

Detective Micah Jordan-Wells has caught his fair share of murderers. But when he catches the serial killer known as Silky, he saves the city of Newark, New Jersey from a horrific killing spree. But the killings continue, and fingers and clues point to Micah. Micah has visions of the victims brutal deaths and an evil force is playing games with his mind. Micah's mother Evelyn holds the key that unlocks the secret to an evil past that began on the day of his birth.

Criss Cross is a powerful novel by Evie Rhodes. Rhodes skillfully mixed mystery and supernatural elements into this story. The reader will know from the very first page that this is not an ordinary novel but an extraordinary one. I liked the timeless battle of good and evil presented in the story. The fight that Micah had with the dark force in the physical, spiritual, and supernatural realm was nothing short of amazing. Criss Cross is a chilling novel that will keep you glued to the pages. With Criss Cross, Evie Rhodes proves she is here to stay.

Page-Turner.......2006-03-15

Evie Rhodes is the author of this novel, CRISS CROSS. She is a novelist, award winning songwriter, and music video scriptwriter.

Evelyn Jordan-Wells bore two sons, Micah and Shaughn--one born of the devil.

Micah was a well known homicide detective. Murders were being committed and seemed like Micah was the only suspect, which no one knew about the evil and diabolical twin brother. This was a war between two brothers--one not knowing what was really happening, because of the father, the devil himself. This is a page turner with unforgettable characters. I highly recommend this book if you like suspense, thriller and satanic.

by Vanessa

RAW Rating: 4.5 - Serial killer on the loose!.......2006-02-14

Detective Micah Jordan-Wells is on the trail of a serial killer who is terrorizing Newark, New Jersey. This killer murders young women and marks their bodies with an "X". Somehow Micah is able to get into the minds of sick criminals, track them down and bring them to justice; making him Newark's best. CRISS CROSS by Evie Rhodes is his story.

Just as Micah thinks he has solved the crime of the dead women, six-year-old boys begin to die in much the same manner. How can Silky, who has been captured for these heinous murders, be responsible? Is it a copycat killer? It is up to Micah, his fellow detective Nugent and his boss, Wolfgang, to figure out the mystery that is horrifying all of Newark. This task is especially daunting since the evidence begins to point directly at Micah. Also, his long suffering girlfriend, Raven, might be getting just a little tired of not having Micah spend time with her. They've been going together for three years and he hasn't popped the question yet. Will their relationship be able to withstand this latest blast of crime?

CRISS CROSS is not only a good mystery, it is a superb horror story. The characters are intricately woven and intertwined. What is love and what is lust and how can a person tell the difference? Reality begins to blend with fantasy and the truth is hard to ascertain. Evie Rhodes has written a fanciful story of lust, love, murder and redemption. It slowed a bit toward the end but the build up to that end was enough to sustain interest. It is a book well worth reading.

Reviewed by Alice Holman
of The RAWSISTAZReviewers

You Got To Have Faith.......2006-02-11

Homicide detective Micah Jordan-Wells is Newark's brightest star until a predator starts
murdering women and children and layiny the blame on Micah. A great fiction with unaxpected twists and turns. Micah must enter the world of the unknown to excape the Criss Cross, Criss Cross was so good I've got to read Expired next.

Crazy Criss-Cross: A Book of Mixed-Up Riddles (Read-it! Joke Books)

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Crazy Criss-Cross: A Book of Mixed-Up Riddles (Read-it! Joke Books)
Michael Dahl
Manufacturer: Picture Window Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Library Binding

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ASIN: 1404802320

No hay lugar como el hogar: There's No Place Like Home, Spanish-Language Edition (Criss-cross)

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No hay lugar como el hogar: There's No Place Like Home, Spanish-Language Edition (Criss-cross)
Emma Dodd
Manufacturer: Silver Dolphin en Espanol
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Board book

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Kids join their favorite travelers, Sally and Sam, in their intrepid adventures to a deserted island looking for hidden treasure, in a submarine, on the planet Mars dodging monsters, and traveling back in time to visit dinosaurs. Each book has readers lifting the flaps to help Sally and Sam along their way.

The Puzzle of the Shark Surfer Girl (Criss Cross Applesauce)

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The Puzzle of the Shark Surfer Girl (Criss Cross Applesauce)
Carole Marsh
Manufacturer: Gallopade International
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0635061716

A Guide for Using Criss Cross in the Classroom (Lit Unit)

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A Guide for Using Criss Cross in the Classroom (Lit Unit)
MELISSA HART
Manufacturer: Teacher Created Resources
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1420680803
Release Date: 2007-02-12

The Case of the Hunchback Hairdresser (Criss Cross Applesauce)

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The Case of the Hunchback Hairdresser (Criss Cross Applesauce)
Carole Marsh
Manufacturer: Gallopade International
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Boxes (Criss Cross)
Paul Bennett
Manufacturer: Hodder Children's Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0750213639

Bresser's Cross-index Directory (DEARBORN AND DOWN RIVER)

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Bresser's Cross-index Directory (DEARBORN AND DOWN RIVER)
BRESSER'S
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000UNVRTA

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Bresser's Information Service Cross Reference Directory Search by Address to acquire Name & Phone, Search by Phone to acquire Name & Address. Each geography includes all maps, census tract data, and postal data. Includes every listing in geography residential & business.

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With the honesty of a skilled biographer and the sensitivity of a caring son, Roth chronicles the life of his father, Herman, in this gripping work which won a 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award. Roth holds little back in describing his father as a man of rare intensity and fierce independence who, for better or worse, stood by his principles and held others to his own rigorous standards. Writes Roth, "His obsessive stubbornness--his stubborn obsessiveness--had very nearly driven my mother to a breakdown in her final years." Frank throughout, Roth calls his father "a pitiless realist, but I wasn't his offspring for nothing, and I could be pretty realistic, too."

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Patrimony, a true story, touches the emotions as strongly as anything Philip Roth has ever written. Roth watches as his eighty-six-year-old father—famous for his vigor, charm, and his repertoire of Newark recollections—battles with the brain tumor that will kill him. The son, full of love, anxiety, and dread, accompanies his father through each fearful stage of his final ordeal, and, as he does so, discloses the survivalist tenacity that has distinguished his father's long, stubborn engagement with life.

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Patrimony but not Matrimony!.......2007-05-30

I like Philip Roth as an author. This book is really a tribute to his father not so much his mother. It seems that he was closer to his father, Herman Roth who he calls the true Bard of Newark, New Jersey. While his son, Philip Roth, has continued to become one of America's top authors and was almost short of winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005, Roth is hardly known or as popular as he should be. This book tells the story of how he copes and deals with his father's illness and death. I wished he would explain more about his relationship with his mother because I think it's key to explaining the troubles in his relationships with women. Twice divorced Roth lives alone in rural Connecticut. At the time of this book, he was with British actress Claire Bloom. Sadly, the relationship dissolved. Roth's own relationships with his brother and nephews are never really expanded or explained. Roth is quite a literary figure maybe a giant but he has problems which most literary geniuses have in their own personal life. Roth's loving book is a tribute to his father, Herman Roth, who was his greatest inspiration. The photo of him and his two sons on the cover was taken at Bradley Beach where Newark Jewish residents rented cottages or bungalows down by Bradley Beach in New Jersey during the hot summer months. I like Roth and have studied and read his books. He can make you feel pride about being from New Jersey in his works.

This is a difficult book with an extraordinary writing .......2006-05-24

There is something sad, something utterly painful about book tributes to fathers. When reading Wiesel's "Night", Franzen's "My Father's Brain" or Roth's "Patrimony", one comes to grips with a difficult reality, of the unnatural heart ache and grief that accompany aging and what they do in the mean time to the father-son relationship.

"Patrimony" offers a glimpse of this aging, of the deterioration of the body. As one reads, one physically partakes into the burden of loosing a loved one, of facing the difficult decisions of what comes next, of recalling memories, of learning to struggle, of the heartbreaking doctor appointments...Philip Roth never holds back. He doesn't protect from the sorrow, or grief. He tells his life's story with honesty and shameless openness that requires not only brilliant clarity, but also the strength of love, love of the kind passed down from a good father to a worthy son.

This is a difficult book with an extraordinary writing and should be considered by anyone who has, is or will ever care for an aging parent.

- by Simon Cleveland

Personal, But Too Personal?.......2006-04-30

It assumes a certain degree of risk for one of the most successful writers of the last half of the 20th Century to expose his personal life for the approval of the public. Perhaps crossing a barrier into intimacy in "Patrimony", Philip Roth tells of the story of the death of his father.

It is difficult to be judgmental about biographical account of of somebody's life or in this case death while not being overly critcal of the person. Yet while I found this book to be humorous at points, the story was just not what I had hoped to read. I am a fan of many of Philip Roth's other books. I knew this book would be unlike his other books and risked alienating Roth's fan base. This makes me wonder why Roth ever wrote or published this book.

While it is personal and exhibits good storytelling, it never engaged me as a reader. To be cliche, I never felt Roth's pain. In this regard, this book is somewhat of a lemon.

Touching story that will help you better understand the aging process.......2006-03-30

Heard the CD version of PATRIMONY: A TRUE STORY
by Philip Roth, the touching story of how his 86-year-old
father battles with the brain tumor that eventually kills him.

If you've ever been in the situation where you have had a parent
or grandparent get old right before your eyes, then this
is a book for you . . . it will help you deal with the situation
better and, also, to understand the aging process.

I really felt I got to know Herman Roth and enjoyed in
sharing his reminisces about growing up in Newark, as
well as about life.

In addition, I could relate to the difficulties that Philip Roth
was going through in attempting to care for his
father--especially when he, too, had to deal with a serious
illness during the process.

The narration by George Guidall was excellent . . . his interpretation
of the elder Roth's voice was truly amazing.

A must read for those who are taking care of an aging parent.......2005-07-05

With such clarity, love, and understanding of both sides, Philip Roth writes an autobiographical account of his relationship with his father, who is 86 years old at the time the book begins. Philip Roth is to be commended for showing not only the duality in taking on such a role, but also how roles reverse...This is a must read for those who are in the role reversal, and coming to terms with a parent!

Patrimony: A Pip & Flinx Adventure (Pip & Flix Adventures)

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Patrimony: A Pip & Flinx Adventure (Pip & Flix Adventures)
Alan Dean Foster
Manufacturer: Del Rey
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0345485076
Release Date: 2007-10-30

Silvio Berlusconi: Television, Power and Patrimony

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Well written but biased
Master
Italy is very close to home
The Tale is Told of You

Silvio Berlusconi: Television, Power and Patrimony
Paul Ginsborg
Manufacturer: Verso
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1844670007

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Well written but biased.......2007-05-01

This book is well written and really tells the story of berlusconis rise, but it is biased against Berlusconi who what ever the critics say is a Great Man who has accomlished alot and not some idiot bureaucrat that usually runs countries these days.

Master.......2006-03-09

Ginsborg is truly a master of italian history, society, and politics. I am not at all surprised with the overwhelming expertise displayed is this book, seeing as all Ginsborg's works display the extent of his knowledge and literary skill. A great "riassunto" of Berlusconi from youth to today, and fairly non-partisan.

Italy is very close to home.......2005-11-19

The author of this book knows how to dramatizize politics. "...something important is happening in Italy, potentially quite sinister, and the seeming normality of life serves to mask it very well." If only it were just a fiction. "Silvio Berlsconi" is a great book on the current state of democracy in Italy, the kind of "modern democracy" heralded by Berlusconi's media empire. If the dictators of the early 20th century have been characterizes as "charismatic leaders" pied pipering away their cults of personality, then today's dictator can be thought of as the sort of highly tailored, well edited "iconic leader," the guy who just LOOKS RIGHT for the job. (Paul Ginsbourg includes a hilarious anecdote in the post-script about Berlusconi who, at a recent press conference, showed up with a face lift he had gotten over Christmas and then proceeds to make the most unfortunate analogy: "The communists...tried to have a face lift in order to hide their real identity, but theirs failed.")
As relentlessly critical as Ginsbourg is to Berlusconi, it is hard to ignore the facts of his presidency, both rise to and the policies to follow. It is also hard to ignore the remarkable similarity between the current state of Italian politics and those of the U.S. As Ginsbourg writes, "All this will have a familiar ring in Anglo-Saxon ears."
Democracy is becoming increasingly about television and leadership about being televised. What happens to "freedom" in a community connected only by cable? Ginsbourg makes a couple claims of his own, but the exciting aspect of the book is the fact that it raises such questions at all.

The Tale is Told of You.......2004-09-14

Italian politics since 1945 has often seemed too unstable and esoteric for most Americans. Paul Ginsborg's short polemic about Silvio Berlusconi shows why people should pay attention. The Berlusconi phenomenon is an amazing, and quite appalling, one. From 1992 to 1994, it was revealed that the conservative Christian Democratic party, which had held uninterrupted power since the war, was deeply, deeply corrupt. So corrupt in fact, that the revelation caused its disintergration. But instead of the Right losing the next elections, a wealthy businessman came along and simply bought a new political party. Silvio Berlusconi's "Forza Italia" was not a party devoted to political debate and discussion. It was staffed by his cronies and devoted to his political cult. With it he won the elections of 1994, even though he was himself deeply compromised by the old regime. Serious allegations of corruption soon led to his loss of power and his electoral defeated in 1996. But he returned to power in 2001. Now in point of fact, the charges against him are more than just "allegations", as that infamous left-wing rag, The Economist, has pointed out. Berlusconi has perjured himself about his membership in a conspiratorial, anti-democratic, quasi-fascist masonic lodge. (He benefited from an amnesty). In the seventies his keeper of one his (one-horse) stables was a notorious mafioso. His personal lawyer, Cesare Preveti, has been convicted of 11 year and 5 year sentences for corrupting judges, though he remains free on appeal. Berlusconi delays his trials to run up against the limitations laws. He amends the limitations laws to render himself immune. He changes the rules of evidence so that trials will be further delayed. And when all that fails, he passes laws giving himself immunity, while seeking to undermine the independence of the magistrates.

This is bad. And it gets worse. For as Ginsborg notes Berlusconi is still backed by more than 40% of Italians. His defeat in 2006 is by no means a sure thing. Indeed he plans to become a powerful President of the Republic. This despite his judical troubles, an anaemic economy, and support for a massively unpopular war. This despite his failure to simplify administrative procedures, or start promised infrastructure projects, though he has reduced the penalties for accounting fraud. Ginsborg himself is one of the leading historians of modern Italy, and he points out Berlusconi's origins in the Milan building trade. He points out how Berlusconi benefited from the intervention of the infamously corrupt Bettino Craxi, who in 1984 ignored the courts and constitutional mandates for a proper broadcasting law to pass a decree without which Berlusconi could not maintain his broadcasting monopoly. (He also points out how Craxi was the godfather of Berlusconi's child out of wedlock, and how Berlusconi comically elides his adultery in discussing the end of his first marriage.) Although Ginsborg tries to be fair, there is not much to be said about about Berlusconi's media: the absence of proper news coverage and documentaries, rampant bias in Berlusconi's favor, more advertisements than the rest of Europe combined, two-hour documentaries about stigmatic priests, a sexism that sometimes seems to have come out of Lolita.

Berlusconi is not a fascist, but he is a threat to democracy. To be exact, he wishes to make democracy safe for the Right and for wealthy people like himself. One should be wary of a man who claims "Better fascism than the bureaucratic tyranny of the judiciary." The party euphemizes the fascist past, with public places and spaces named after "acceptable" fascists and with Berlusconi claiming that Mussolini didn't murder anyone. Whether it is the Bank of Italy, the civil service, public broadcasting, magistrates or the public health system, all have their independence and integrity threatened by Berlusconi. Meanwhile he deals with Murdoch and his own media empire as if conflict of interest laws don't exist, which in Italy they don't. His model polity is a world in which mass apathy is punctuated by his biased media and his political image, where people consent, but do not choose. Ginsborg points out how this project is encouraged by the weaknesses of a centre-left which, purged of its Marxist past, cannot seek to mobilize support, which seeks to compromise and which cannot inspire with its technocratic biases, and which, for one reason or another, cannot attack Berlusconi's venality. Ginsborg's book is not perfect (a law undermining magisterial independence is not made clear, while Ginsborg overestimates the influence of the late Canadian media lord Izzy Aspser). But in an era with declining voter turnout and declining independent media, where media monopoly advances with partisan and unscrupulous conservative politics, and where the left, the centre, and the right-centre are too nervous and exhausted to resist, there are good reasons to fear that Berlusconi's Italy could soon be our world.

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The Patrimony (Horseclans #6)
Robert Adams
Manufacturer: Roc
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ASIN: 0451118154

Prairie Patrimony: Family, Farming, and Community in the Midwest (Studies in Rural Culture)

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Prairie Patrimony: Family, Farming, and Community in the Midwest (Studies in Rural Culture)
Sonya Salamon
Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
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Sowing American Dream: How Consumer Culture Took Root In Rural Midwest

ASIN: 0807845531

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Prairie Patrimony consolidates, refines, advances and grounds recent scholarship that challenges familiar platitudes about family farming and rural life in the United States. . . . No one should doubt the great contribution that Salamon has made to our understanding of American rural life.
American Studies

[Salamon's] approach yields a depth of information about farming culture not usually found in the literature on rural America.
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Takes the reader on a cultural tour of a cherished American institution and landscape--midwestern farm families and their farms. With perceptive attention to detail and knowledge borne of first-hand study over many years, [Salamon] skillfully reveals the pervasive imprint of ethnicity. . . . Prairie Patrimony represents one of those rare studies that enrich our social vision and understanding in extraordinary ways.
Glen H. Elder, Jr., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Salamon's book is a remarkable contribution to the study of agriculture and culture, and its cross-disciplinary approach will engage scholars in many areas. For historians, it is a splendid illustration that different behaviors between American and immigrant farmers, planted over a century ago in the Middle West, have endured to the present.
Jon Gjerde, University of California, Berkeley

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The House of the Father As Fact and Symbol: Patrimonialism in Ugarit and the Ancient Near East (Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Levant, 2)
J. David Schloen
Manufacturer: Eisenbrauns
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1575069075

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Delacroix, Art and Patrimony in Post-Revolutionary France
Elisabeth A. Fraser
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0521828295

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Focusing on Eugene Delacroix's paintings from the Bourbon Restoration, Elisabeth Fraser shows how they responded to the charged cultural inheritance of the French Revolution. In her analysis of post-revolutionary French society, Fraser reveals that theefamily served as an important subtext in Delacroix's art as well as a political emblem in the Restoration. reconcile the current political scene with the traumatic past of the French Revolution. In her analysis of post-Revolutionary French society, Fraser reveals how the family served as an important subtext in Delacroix's art as well as a political emblem in the Restoration.

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Stigma & The Cave (Patrimonies)
D. H. Melham
Manufacturer: Syracuse University Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0815608829

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Award-winning writer D. H. Melhem creates an emotionally harrowing yet philosophically enlightening vision of the post-9/11 world in her latest novels.

These two novels complete D. H. Melhem's trilogy, Patrimonies, that began with Blight. Stigma, a dark political satire, and The Cave, a post-nuclear fantasy, confront the crucial issue facing this generation: what kind of world will be our legacy? Unsettling and sometimes terrifying, both novels center on ideological paradoxes created by a military-industrial government pitted against American individualist politics.

Stigma offers a vision of civil unrest, unemployment, and a chronic state of war. Books are recycled as toilet paper. Families are conscripted by lottery for the honor of war-work. Selected adults serve in a bizarre bomb factory. Youths are inducted into military service, children relegated to orphanages. Scathing yet awash in dark humor, Stigma relates one family's struggle to survive in and escape a system of perversity and horror.

The Cave describes a motley group of people who flee to an abandoned cave, seeking shelter from a nuclear attack. Inside, viciousness, cowardice, and heroic gestures ironically transform their lives into a war. Tensions between family relations and newly formed alliances, communal needs and individual desires, religious beliefs and stark reality move toward a cataclysmic finale, in which one man retrieves a sign of faith.

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Elizabeth Emma Ferry explores how members of Guanajuato's Santa Fe Cooperative, Mexico's only remaining cooperatively owned silver mine, give meaning to their labor in an era of rampant globalization and neoliberalism. Ferry analyzes the cooperative's practices and the importance of patrimonio (patrimony) in their understanding of work, kinship, and morality. More specifically, she argues that patrimonio, a belief that certain resources are inalienable possessions of a local collective passed down to subsequent generations, shapes and sustains the cooperative's sense of identity.

In addition to descriptions of the miners' lives and views, Ferry examines patrimonio's influence on other aspects of Mexican life. Patrimonio, which both challenges and coexists with contemporary capitalist practices, draws close connections between collective identities, rights to resources, and social obligations throughout Mexican society. Ferry's ambitious, groundbreaking study opens up new ways of understanding modern Mexican history, the idea of property, value, and exchange in capitalist society, and current debates in Mexico over the ownership of resources, land, and historical artifacts.

Moliere and the Commonwealth of Letters: Patrimony and Posterity

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Moliere and the Commonwealth of Letters: Patrimony and Posterity
Roger Johnson
Manufacturer: University Press of Mississippi
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0878050590

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