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Whenever Judge Deborah Knott comes to town, murder seems to follow. Her eighth outing takes the young district judge to the pottery-rich town of Seagrove, North Carolina for routine divorce proceedings. But quickly she finds herself in all-too-familiar territory when the legal and artistic battle between two potters, James Lucas and Sandra Kay Nordan, ends in murder. Deborah soon learns that this is not the first tragedy to wound Amos Nordan, proud patriarch of the clan. In the end, it will take Deborahs insight into the very heart of vengeance to understand what past tragedy still stalks the Nordan family.
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The dark earth in the piedmont of North Carolina's Randolph County is heavy with bright red clay. And it is this same rich soil that attracts many of the South's most skilled potters. Also drawn to this region is the visiting judge Deborah Knott, who is there for decidedly different reasons. Deborah faces the most exasperating case a judge can handle--overseeing the equitable distribution of marital property. The antagonists are James Lucas Nordan and Sandra Kay Hitchcock, both potters who are bitterly divorcing after almost twenty-five years of marriage. As creative as it was stormy, the Nordans' history together produced great artistic achievements. Much of the credit for this stellar legacy can go to Amos Nordan, James Lucas's father and the proud clan patriarch. At the same time, old Amos is no stranger to tragedy. Two years earlier, his more talented son, Donny, apparently committed suicide . . . in a manner so scandalous that Amos still can't bear to speak of it. Suddenly, amid the petty bickering, an even more gruesome death strikes the Nordans. Violence, seemingly borne out of Providence, stalks the family homestead as the sins of the past catch up with the Nordan family. Judge Knott knows she must summon all of her considerable insight into the darkest entanglements of the human heart if she is to stop a most human specter, well-crafted in the art of murder.
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Competent mystery with a strong shot of research........2006-03-21
Uncommon Clay is entertaining to read just for the color and background which Maron's research brings to the work. Set among the potter families of North Carolina, Maron brings the world of craftsmen and collectors to life and sets a killer loose.
I have enjoyed other books in the Knott series a bit more than this one, but it is still a reasonable mystery and one that kept me reading and entertained. Three-and-a-half-stars, really.
She really tried to mind her own business.......2005-08-27
The Nordan family has problems. The death of three of them in rather gruesome ways is the least of it. The head of the family Amos Nordan is a cave man in his thinking, about woman, and the government interfering with his business, and its causing the rest of the family nothing but trouble. Lucky for the readers there Judge Deborah Knott, with her easy and funny look on life, and of course the need to stick her noise into places it shouldn't be, but than what kind of Judge would she be if she didn't do thank. In the end all the string will be neatly tied, and of course the killer will get what's coming to um.
Margaret Maron really writes a great mystery. The book is fun to read, and the killer isn't all that obvious. Her characters truly come to life within these pages. This is the first of her books I have read, but it will not be last. If you are fan of southern mysteries, with real woman characters, you'll love this book. I can also recommend this book highly to fans of Sharon McCrumb, another great southern mystery writer.
It's ok, but I felt cheated.......2004-05-10
This book was ok. That's all that can really be said about it. If you have been reading the series and you are really into it, you may have a different feeling. This is the first book of the series that I have read. I do not think it was bad, but I felt cheated. The print is pretty big -- this book should be half its size. I get the feeling that the author ran out of ideas for the series and based a book on research without taking the plot twists as seriously. I really felt cheated by the ending. (I leave you with that to not ruin it.)
Best Yet.......2004-04-27
Except for Storm Track, I've read all of the Deborah Knott series. To me, Uncommon Clay is the best yet! The research and information that Margaret supplied about the NC pottery industry was a bonus to the solid mystery she always provides. I'll be going to Seagrove soon. Too bad I won't be able to find her fictious potteries - I'd love to meet these characters!
Good book.......2004-03-15
I delayed reading this book, because Killer Market was so bad.
The other Deborah Knott books were good. As I live only 9 miles
from Seagrove I wanted to see if the book was accurate and it
was to my knowledge, except for one little detail and that is
Dorothy and Walter Auman had a son and grandchildren, but they
are not in the pottery business, so this detail is not at all
important. I'm forgetting Killer Market and am going to return
to reading all the Margaret Maron books, right after I go to
Seagrove and buy some more pottery.
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Uncommon Clay -- The Life and Works of Augustus Saint Gaudens (Classic Books on Cassettes Collection) [UNABRIDGED]
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8 CD's. Margaret Maron, winner of the Edgar, Anthony, Agatha and Macavity Awards, has reached renowned success with the Deborah Knott Mystery series. Uncommon Clay delves into the intriguing world of the Nordans, a deep-rooted family of talented yet cursed North Carolina potters. Judge Knott is filling in for another judge who suffered a mild stroke. When she decrees that the divorcing Nordan couple split their valuable earthenware collection, the husband winds up dead--in his own kiln! Many people have motives and the clay wheel swirls with suspects. C.J. Critts narration heightens the suspense in this familys story of long-time grudges, murder, unbearable pain, and loss. This exciting novel is as rich as the red clay pottery of North Carolina
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In The Body of Brooklyn David Lazar, an acclaimed essayist and prose stylist, offers a vividly detailed, hilarious, and touching recollection of his Brooklyn upbringing in the 1960s and 70s. His immigrant Jewish heritage and his bodily history—from the travails of childhood obesity to the sexual triumphs of post-adolescent leanness—form the core of this series of essays, all of which will win the interest and admiration of readers. More-over, this film-flavored confection is so infused with Lazar's fascinating turn of mind and memory, forever digressing and reflecting upon his digressions, without ever losing the thread of his story, that his essays will give the reader the distinctive pleasure of witnessing an extraordinary mental performance.
Lazar's essays vary in their focus as much as each meanders within itself: he recalls, for example, the “melon man” of his childhood, grottoes in Brooklyn, his extensive wardrobe, and his father's “pragmatically crafty alter ego.” Constantly expanding the boundaries of his writing style, Lazar also includes a unique photo-essay that provides a series of brilliant verbal riffs on old family photographs.
The voice found within The Body of Brooklyn—unrepentantly literary, funny, digressive, and centered on Brooklyn—is quite unlike any other in contemporary literature. It will fascinate and intrigue all who listen.
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Thinking as fast as you laugh.......2003-10-30
This is a truly wonderful and unique book. Lazar's voice--conversational but concentrated, self-aware but entirely un-coy, and often just plain out funny-is unlike the voice of any other nonfiction writer I know, and his approach to his subjects is never hackneyed. He can write about such familiar topics as family, sexuality, culture and how they inform his sense of his own identity and identity in general and line by line, paragraph by paragraph, you never get that sense of "oh, he's taking X familiar line" that almost every writer gives. That's what I think the one of the blurbs means by describing Lazar as a writer's writer's writer: people who have read deeply and widely will perhaps appreciate this collection most, since they are most likely to understand the subtle brilliance that illuminates every page.
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Vodou is among the most misunderstood and maligned of the world's religions. Mama Lola shatters the stereotypes by offering an intimate portrait of Vodou in everyday life. Drawing on a decade-long friendship with Mama Lola, a Vodou priestess, Karen McCarthy Brown tells tales spanning five generations of Vodou healers in Mama Lola's family, beginning with an African ancestor and ending with Mama Lola's daughter Maggie, a recent initiate and the designated heir to her Brooklyn-based healing practice. Out of these stories, in which dream and vision flavor everyday experience and the Vodou spirits guide decision making, Vodou emerges as a religion focused on healing brought about by mending broken relationships between the living, the dead, and the Vodou spirits.
Mama Lola is also an important experiment in feminist ethnographic writing designed to address current questions in the field. Brown begins with the assumption that ethnography is not so much a science as a social art form rooted in human relationships, and as such it is open to moral and aesthetic questions as well as to those more routinely addressed to it. Weaving several of her own voices--analytic, descriptive, and personal--with the voices of her subjects in alternate chapters of straightforward ethnography and ethnographic fiction, Brown presents herself as a character in Mama Lola's world and allows the reader to evaluate her interactions there. Mama Lola's story thus rises from a chorus of equally authoritative voices.
Deeply exploring the role of women in religious practices and the related themes of family and of religion and social change, Brown provides a rich context in which to understand the authority that urban Haitian women exercise in the home and in the Vodou temple. A broad range of general readers and scholars will find insights and new understandings in this startlingly original work.
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A brilliant and compelling account of "walkers between the worlds".......2007-07-30
Walking between the worlds
Karen McCarthy Brown has penned a masterpiece! Mama Lola, known to family and friends as Alourdes, is a Mambo, an initiated priestess of Voudou who earns a modest living by serving her immigrant countrymen in America as a traditional healer and by conducting Haitian Voudou rites in her Brooklyn home. In 1978, Brown, then a professor of religion at New Jersey's Drew University first encountered Mama Lola while doing an ethnographic survey of the local Haitian population. Intrigued by the priestess and her misunderstood and maligned tradition, Brown became at first a friend, then a member of Mama Lola's extended family and finally an enthusiastic participant in many of the rites that comprise the corpus of Voudoun devotional life.
Mama Lola, her daughter Maggie, their children and their ancestors, and the 'Lwa' (spirits) who frequently 'possess' them are an engaging, wonderfully diverse crowd: deeply spiritual, profoundly thoughtful and often humorous characters marvelously skilled in surviving conditions of extreme deprivation and oppression and in adapting to the conditions of life (or, afterlife) in the strange world of urban America.
By the time I had completed this delightful book, I felt myself deeply involved in Mama Lola's life and that of her extended family. Brown's writing is textured and a pleasure to read. The author goes far out on a limb, leaving her observer role and social scientist expertise and becomes an initiate into the religion, wedding the 'etic' of academia to the 'emic' of an ecstatic, profoundly sensual, Earth-centered religiosity.
The arrangement of the text adds to its readability, with odd chapters offering stories about Mama Lola's family and heritage and even chapters devoted to the pantheon of lwa (spirits) of the Voudou tradition. A glossary of Voudou terms has been added, which is indispensible to readers new to the subject.
Students and scholars of Haiti, the African Diaspora and African religious traditions will enjoy and benefit from this work immensely. I recommend it as well to the general public for a most worthwhile reading adventure.
Praise for Mama Lola.......2006-09-13
What a journey! This is one of those rare books that not only tells a great story, but actualy envelops the reader and takes them on an incredible spiritual journey. The author writes in a style which is both familiar and confortable. When she describes places, rituals, or people, the reader feels like they are there, seeing these things with the author. As for Mama Lola herself, what a woman! Mama Lola, Alourdes, is presented as a kind, strong, knowledgeble, and powerful priestess. When the author writes Mama Lola's words, you can feel as if you are actually hearing her speak to you. The words along with several photographs give this book more than the reader could ever imagine. I will cherish this book as long as I live.
Vodou as psychodrama.......2005-06-18
One of the best books ever. This book strikes a perfect balance between a dry, scholarly approach and a colorful, sensationalist approach. It is written by a scholar who was initiated into and participated in vodou rituals, thus avoiding the kind of spiritual blindness that often afflicts scholars studying alien religions.
What is really fascinating about the practice of vodou as depicted in this book is how it functions as a kind of psychodrama for maintaining personal and social balance and mental health. Fascinating.
Human.......2005-02-23
This is an engrossing and moving read that compares with such books as "Woman Who Glows In The Dark" and "Macumba." It is about a very wonderful, gifted woman who is a Mambo, a Haitian Vudou healer and spiritualist. The story is about her life, her ancestors, her spirits and her relationships. The book is rich with insights.
You can't help but love this family!.......2004-10-05
Not really a book on Hatian Vodou. Mama Lola is more a family history and a description of what serving the spirits means to them.
Dr. Brown makes this amazing woman and her family come alive on the page.
Alourdes is all at once a devout woman, devoted mother, petulent and powerful woman. Her family is at once inspiring and beverage out your nose funny.
By the end of this edition, I found myself not only falling in love with Alourdes family, but with the spirits they so loyally serve.
A terrfic book if you want to understand what Vodou means to it's followers, what life is like for immigrant women and the pride and strength that comes from growing up in the poorest country in the Western hemisphere.
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Great beginners book............2003-03-08
In the words of a local newspaper, grass is out and vegetables are in - even in the urban yard. KITCHEN GARDENS are the most "in" of all gardens and this handy little book by the Brooklyn Botanic Garden is a good place to start if you're thinking about growing your own vegetables at home. The book is small but loaded with information. Although some of the photographs show acreage not often found inside the city, many of the photos and suggestions are helpful for smaller patches. Topics such as optimizing space by rotating crops, sticking plants in unusual places (along the driveway), windowsill gardening, and the old standby container gardening are all discussed. You can dig up the back yard, the side yard, and the front yard and plant a mix of vegetables and flowers (which are often edible).
KG provides lists of plants you might grow, including a variety of tomatoes. My new nursery catalogues have arrived and one of them (White Flower Farm) offers a package of three of the tomato plants recommended by this book. Tomatoes aren't the only things you can grow, however. Beans, eggplants, carrots, and peppers can all be found in the kitchen garden. Okra, squash, and other vining plants can be escorted up trellises and over fences. You might grow greens and other plants that require good drainage in raised beds. Nothing like a bowl of fresh mesclun salad or a pot of steamed baby pac choi you just picked.
I like the book because it shows you how to get started with "environmentally friendly" kitchen gardening. The book is attractive to look at and pleasant to read, and it organizes many good ideas under one cover. This is a good buy for the beginner who might not want to invest a great deal of money in a bigger more expensive book but wants first-class information from the experts. About one-quarter of the book covers regional variations in kitchen gardening (about 6-7 pages per region). Given you probably live in one of the regions discussed, you should be able to use most of the book.
Not the most comprehensive book on kitchen gardens.......2002-03-15
For those who want their vegetable gardens to provide bountiful harvest as well as being aesthetically pleasing, the kitchen garden is the way to go. The addition of flowers and other non-vegetable plants add colour and dimension to a garden that would otherwise be fairly mundane and drab. As the book discusses, there are essentially two kitchen garden traditions: the English and the French (Potagers). Aside from the short discussion on these two variations, the book contains much that is familiar to any but the most novice gardener. The latter portion of the book is devoted to recommended varieties of vegetables for five basic growing regions of North America. While I always find such overviews interesting, in my opinion it diminishes the usefulness of the book.
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Covering the basic principles, aesthetics, and design practices of Japanese gardens, this book provides the practical information gardeners need to adapt these ideals to North American landscapes and sensibilities. Not a step-by-step construction manual, it teaches the fundamental principles of integrating house, garden, and landscape by making art from simple groupings of rocks, plants, and water and opening Japanese symbolism to elements with universal significance, such as water and paths. Included is an extensive encyclopedia of appropriate plants to use based on creating and defining particular eco-regions.
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A very good introduction.......2003-06-20
This brief book served as a great introduction to Japanese gardening philosophy and technique. I must admit that I approached the idea of a Japanese garden with some pretty stereotypical views of what to include and how to structure the space. This book shows how the philosophy is actually more important than specific elements or plants. In fact, I realized that I have been using some of these approaches for years without thinking about it. What I considered to be shortcuts, such as using available stone rather than purchasing, is now part of my routine. The book does provide plenty of specific design suggestions and explains the reasons for these design choices. I changed my methods somewhat after reading this book, but moreover, I changed my mindset and now feel more satisfied with the results. If you want a good, quick introduction to Japanese gardening with some depth, I believe this would be a worthwhile purchase.
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Hopkins, the respected authority in the field of UFO research, learned of an witnessed abduction, something unprecedented in the history of UFO research. In NY City, on Nov. 30, 1989, at 3:00 AM, several witnesses saw this event. Accompanied by 3 alien figures, Linda Cortile was seen emerging from an apartment building window. Suspended within a beam of light, Linda & her captors were lifted into a large glowing UFO, which then moved off in the direction of the Brooklyn Bridge. When she reported her abduction, Hopkins conducted a thorough investigation. Whatever the aliens' motives, the details of this case -- incl. an inexplicable metallic object implanted in Linda's body -- challenge all preconceptions about UFOs & alien abductions. Illustrations.
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entertaining, out there.................2005-08-27
I really don't know how to review this book. Bud seems like a good man to help Linda they way he does. This book is out there, but if you are an abductee, you know how strange reality really is. It is worth a reading. It will keep you wanting more.
Witnessed: The True Story of the Brooklyn Bridge Abductions.......2005-08-08
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Witnessed: The True Story of the Brooklyn Bridge Abductions
Bud Hopkins
ISBN 0-671-57031-5
"I'm standing on nothing. My nightgown is above my head. I can see it..."
Linda Cortile, "under hypnotic regression"
On 30 November 1989 in the wee-hours of the morning, "Linda Cortile" was abducted form her 12 floor New York apartment. Transported by a blue beam of light, "Linda" and her three alien abductors exited through the closed window and safety screen into a hovering UFO outside.
What starts as a text-book UFO abduction takes an unexpected twist as details emerge indicating that "Linda" was not the only one abducted that morning. As Investigator and Author Bud Hopkins attempts to work this puzzle new leads evolve: the abduction of a political figure and the security detail, an attempt by unidentifiable men to abduct "Linda" and the near tragic result of her kidnapping.
Although several incidents depicted in the book sparked the skeptic in me, this book is consistent with the investigation techniques and proof-providing style of Bud Hopkins.
This story definitely adds a new twist to the alien agenda as well as the degree of impact our childhood imaginary friends may actually have on our lives.
Long-winded and shaky alien soap opera.......2004-06-08
I expected more from the first true book I've read about this type of phenomena. The book should have been a third of its 398 pages, because in the end, all you have is a couple of people's stories, however compelling they are, to judge for their truthfulness. The three cental figures connected to the Linda Cortile case won't reveal themselves, so we're left wondering if she made them up(by sending letters to the author) to further her sensational means. There isn't any real evidence other than a xray that used to show an object in Mrs. Cortile's nose, which is no longer there, well, because the aliens took it out. Hopkins conviction and analysis is compelling, as well as some interesting side stories. But in the end, even if the events did take place, which is possible, what happened is kinda silly. With obsessed top security agents, a wierd "world leader", and criss-crossing generational alien meetings, this should have preferably been a 30 page article.
Witmessed?.......2003-08-20
Sometimes, and while reading books that deal with the Ufo-aliens-alien abduction issue i feel that i perfectly understand the "nonbelievers"...If you're going to read a book which purpotedly accounts for the sighting and the witnessing of an alien space craft which adducted human beings from a very central part of a city, well, then, you'd expect the author that wrote the book to have gone to greater lengths than the ones he went through.
And having said that, I should add that i would count myself in as a "believer" (however naive and superficial if not religious such a term is)..
But: when you claim that a spacecraft which was very brightly lit came to a quite central part of a city, abducted someone by elevating her and pulling her through her apartment window, and then dove into a nearby river, i would expect (and others too) that you would find way more witnesses than those accounted for in the book.
Hopkins, the author, offers the abductee herself, 2 ex-secret service (?) agents, and a central political figure as witnesses. Now from these, only the real name of the abductee is used as the two agents offer whatever "evidence" they do on condition of anonymity and the same goes for the politician who also saw the happening. For reasons best know to the author, he claims that he couldnt find more witnesses even though that seems highly unlikely for a very populated area such as that where the incident took place.
As far as other evidence is concerned, he offers the hypnotism sessions he conducted with the abductee as well as some drawings and samples of sand. It's not all that shoddy as I'm describing so far though.
Even with so "little"evidence what Hopkins offers (if entirely true) is nevertheless compelling. You do of course have to take him at his word, but if you do, then it seems that an ultraweird sighting and abduction took place in the end of the 80's..One where an alien spacecraft totally disregarded whether it was attracting massive attention (as if it was intending to?) and went forth with its mission.
This is by no means a new "feature" in alien abduction literature and/or lore. During other sightings as well, craft and their crew have been "acting" as if they couldn't have been less bothered about attracting attention.
The one new element Hopkins offers goes beyond the sighting itself and it adds a whole new dimension to what's possibly involved in alien abductions.
Through his hypnotism sessions and subsequent crosschecking with the other 2 witnesses the author discovers a common "childhood" among these formerly not familiar to each other people, a common childhood that seems to be monitored by "beings" that all 3 witnesses recall in detail and who seem to have followed up the whole process with an abduction at a mauch later date when one of the witnesses (a woman) has already grown to an adult. Further investigation by Hopkins shows that the other 2 witnesses may at one point also have been abducted.
The possibility that another species is actually setting up "separate childhoods" for us, where not only are we monitored (so our behavior over a long period of time can be observed)but we are also beeing set up with future "mates" so the structure of human relationships can be studied in detail is -to put it ultramildly- very interesting...
Overall, this is a book addressed to those who are already in "familair" territory with the issue. I dont see how someone who has never read such a book wont be "alienated" (pun intended) with the offerings in it.
Scared the ... out of me.......2003-02-18
Believers will believe and nonbelievers will not believe. To believe the story of a real-life abduction and how it affected those who witnessed it, you have to trust the author who writes it. I must say, Hopkins seems like a nice guy and he also seems believable. Reading the book, you get to know the guy and how he does his investigatory work in trying to verify whether this incident actually happened.
Problem is, of course, that reading the book is an act of faith. You will never really know if the sources made anything up. On one hand, you think, these sources have no motive to lie, and too many people would have to conspire to weave a web of lies and remain consistent in reporting the story to Hopkins. Based on their lifestyles, social class and professions, several critical sources could not possibly have known each other before the witnessed abduction. What what about the power of suggestion? There are no real answers, but this is a great read. It will change the way you react to UFO stories.
And I'll say this: if even HALF this book is true, we are in big trouble. BIG trouble. Read the book to find out why.
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