My Mama Says There Aren't Any Zombies, Ghosts, Vampires, Demons, Monsters, Fiend

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How can Nick believe his mother's telling him there aren't any monsters when she forgets what his favorite flavor of ice cream is? Or when she makes him wear boots and it doesn't even rain?

Well, sometimes Mamas do make mistakes...but sometimes they don't.

Judith Viorst's appealing text combines with Kay Chorao's wickedly evocative drawings in this all-new edition of a favorite book.

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Zombies and ghosts.......2006-07-18

Very interesting book. All my kids (6, 4 and 3) love it for the ghosts and monsters, although I think the book is a bit too difficult and long for the 2 younger ones to follow. All the same, they like to hear about Monsters - again and again. Yet, at the end of every reading they will ask "so are there monsters?" and "did you also make a mistake about monsters, mummy?".

Fearless Female Brought Up With This Book.......2004-05-14

This was my FAVORITE book when I was little. The monsters did creep into my dreams, but the theme of the book is that Mom, though she did sometimes make mistakes, was the strongest around. I mean, heck, she could scare away monsters!
I still to this day admire my mom's strength that I began to imitate since this book showed me that women, even single mamas who aren't always perfect, can be fearless and strong! I would never have done all of the good things in my life if I hadn't stood up to the 'monsters' of the world. College, travel and love are all scary things to enter, but SO worth the effort and THAT is what this book is about to me!
Thanks Mom.
Love Kassimo.

Would give zero stars if that were an option!.......2003-07-10

I bought this book after reading the good comments of other reviewers, but find I completely wasted my money since I immediately donated it to charity without ever letting my kids see it. I am pretty liberal about what they read----"My Monster Mama loves me so" and "Frank was a Monster (who wanted to dance)" are their FAVORITE books---but this book is plain scary, not humorous or comforting. I bought this for my fearful 5-year-old (to try to help quell her fear of the dark) but this book would give even my eight-year-old nightmares, though my 10-year-old would probably find it amusing. I agree with the reviewer who said that mom is made to look like a bit of a dolt, right up until the very last (and somewhat confusing) page. If your kids weren't scared of the dark before reading this, it will give them plenty of new monsters to worry about. Skip this book and instead go for "No Such Thing".

Great Kid's Book.......2002-08-22

Sure, some of the illustrations scared me as a kid, but I loved it all the same. I used to beg my mom to read it to me all the time. Sadly, I got rid of it a while ago, and pretty soon I missed it dearly. I bought a new copy of it just today and couldn't be happier. I'm so glad to have found it still in print. This book is indespensible, no matter what...

I LOVE THIS BOOOK!.......2001-08-10

This book was one of my all time favorites...I could not remember the name of it only that moms arent always right...and the imagery has stayed with me for some 20 years!

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We love Monster Mama
great book
Such a great book!
Geat book for kids
One of my favorite books

My Monster Mama Loves Me So
Laura Leuck
Manufacturer: HarperCollins
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0688168663
Release Date: 1999-09-29

Book Description

My monster mama loves me so!
Let me tell you how I know:
When I wake up, she tweaks my nose,
tickles all my pointy toes,
combs the cobwebs from my bangs,
and makes sure that I brush my fangs....

At once tender and funny, this monster bedtime story is guaranteed to generate giggles, tickles, and plenty of monster hugs.

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We love Monster Mama.......2007-08-07

My kids (ages 3-7) all love this book. It has a great rhythm and after reading it regularly for five years, they still giggle through the entire book. Because of that, we have given this book to many friends who have loved it as much as us.

great book.......2007-01-16

I bought this because my son has been waking up scared of "things" in his room at night. He has been waking up a lot less lately, since we started reading this and another book. I really think this among other things has helped. It insinuates that monsters are scared of little boys and girls which is just what he needed to hear!! It is also very cute and makes monsters seem just like people!

Such a great book!.......2006-10-03

My little boy is 19 months old and this is one of his favorite bedtime stories. The illustrations are bright and colorful and the story makes us laugh every time we read it!

Geat book for kids.......2006-06-25

I loved this book and read it to my precious grandson, Connor. The book is written in rhyme and it is very sweet and interesting to kids.

One of my favorite books.......2006-03-04

This book is adorable...the story is wonderful and very funny and the illustrations are great. The story is in rhyming verse, which gives it a nice rhythm. I read this to my 2 year old daughter and it is truly one of our favorite books...I highly recommend it.

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Stories with Morals...........
Ghost Stories My Mother Told Me

Ghost Stories: My Mother Told Me
Lecy McKenzie Pritchett
Manufacturer: 1st Books Library
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 141072204X

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Stories with Morals..................2004-08-01

This book was what I would consider a modern day Grimm's Fairy Tales, with morals. I thought it was really interesting how the stories were able to give us a lesson. But at the same time they were scary. I could not put the book down. But when it comes to Lecy and her books, I am guilty for not putting them down till I have read the entire book. You will feel the same way when you read one of her books. Enjoy!

Ghost Stories My Mother Told Me.......2003-06-12

I love books like this, and Lecy McKenzie Pritchett has written a winner here. There are eight (8) short stories that will catch you imagination, and make you think. From The Lady In the Lake to Do You Believe In Ghost, she has written a book full of encounters of the ghostly kind that are sure to please.
I was thrilled, chilled, and down right entertained, and could not stop reading once I began. Some of her stories were based on encounter with ghosts and spirits in real life, and those were the ones that were really fun to read. She definately has talent when writing about ghostly encounters.
Look for this Author and her books, because I will definately read anything else she has to offer. Don't know where she's been, but I look forward to reading more books by a new horror writer new to the scene.

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My Mother's Ghost
FERGUS M. BORDEWICH
Manufacturer: Doubleday
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MU5ER2

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A Spooky Ghost Story
My Mothers Ghost
An exciting, gripping tale, perfect for golden summer nights

My Mother's Ghost
Margaret Buffie
Manufacturer: Kids Can Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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A Spooky Ghost Story.......2001-03-21

When Jess's father moves the family to a ranch after the death of Jess's brother life is not easy for anyone. Jess's mother is slowly losing his mind and Jess is being forced into a world she wants nothign to do with. But when she hears her mother speaking to someone in her room in the night time, she's convinced that she's gone crazy. But as Jess digs into the past and finds an old journal she learns that her mother's Ghost is real, but not in the way she thinks.

I was impressed with this book. The first couple chapters are a bit slow but once you get past that you realize that it's an amazing book. It's written in two parts, one from Jess's world and another as Ian's journal. If you've read any other one of Margaret Buffie's books or just love a good ghost story this book is for you. I highly reccomend it.

My Mothers Ghost.......2001-01-28

After the death of her little brother, Jess moves to a ranch with her parents. She meets Percy, the old ranch hand and his wife, Winny; and Ben, Percy's young, handsome but shy helper. But she also meets the ghosts of Ian and his mother. What do they want? The supernatural, twisted with family issues and even some romance, makes this book a good read any time, anywhere, for anyone. Another excellent story by Margaret Buffie.

An exciting, gripping tale, perfect for golden summer nights.......1998-12-28

When sixteen-year-old Jessie Locke's little nine-year-old brother, Scotty dies after drowning in a pool, her RCMP father Rick moves her and her mother, Jeannie to Double Oak Ranch.

But all's not well. Jeannie is coping with grief and depression at the loss of her son, Rick tries to turn the ranch into a successful business and Jessie tries to help her emotional mother who is convinced she's seeing the ghost of her dead son.

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A luminous memoir of how the author's involvement in his mother's accidental death reshaped the emotional landscape of his childhood and adult life.
In 1962, at the age of fourteen, Fergus Bordewich's life was shattered as his mother attempted to jump off a runaway horse and fell calamitously under the galloping hooves of the horse Fergus was riding. Crouching beside her in a gathering pool of blood, he convinced himself that she would be fine. But an hour later, in the hospital waiting room, he and his father listened in shock as the doctor told them that she had been dead on arrival. At that moment, he thought to himself, I've killed my mother.

So begins My Mother's Ghost, veteran reporter Fergus Bordewich's anguished attempt to come to terms with the emotional chaos his life was thrown into with his mother's death. For all practical purposes, Fergus's childhood was over. His mother, a fierce, fireball of a woman, had been the dominant figure not just in his family, but, as the executive director of the Association on American Indian Affairs, a galvanizing force in national politics behind Native American activism and tribal rights. She was a woman who traveled the country meeting with tribal chiefs and regularly dined with senators and congressmen. And Fergus had been the son she doted on. In the aftermath of her death, his father slipped further into alcoholism and silence. In the decade that followed, Fergus would follow his father into a life of despair and drink. By the age of twenty-seven, he was close to suicide.

A devastating and beautifully written account of Bordewich's attempt to make peace with his mother's death and rediscover her place in his heart, My Mother's Ghost is a poignant and heartrending memoir that, like Angela's Ashes, is neither easily put down nor readily forgotten.

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An Angelic Ghost Of An Exceptional Mother........2005-05-17

This memoir was about a family tragedy, the first-hand experience of the accident in which his mother died instantly. He had witnessed her fall from a horse directly in front of the horse he was riding. He'd felt guilty and, as a boy of fourteen, he believed that he had killed his mother.

A son never gets over the loss of his mother at a young age. My brother would have been sixteen when our mother died of cancer. My father was having problems adjusting to the death of his first wife (even though it had been a long and horrible way watch her die), and so he took out his pain on Ralph and Cecil. To escape the daily thrashings and humiliation, Ralph got married the next year at the age of seventeen -- to leave a tormented home situation. In 1990 (42 years later), Ralph was dying from emphesema and liver failure when I visited him in the hospital. A nurse came in his room as he and I were alone and conversing (I lived 200 miles from here then), and casually asked him, "When did your pain begin?" The 58-yr-old man sobbed and said "when my mother died."

Like Ralph, Mr. Bordewich became a man overnight and had to cope with an alcoholic father. But life goes on and he lived through the turmoil to become a father himself. His mother (a beautiful person) was an important person, well-known on a national level. Our mother was an abused woman who'd borne nine children (five died at birth) without a doctor's care -- even I, the baby of the family, had been born at home -- and as a result developed cancer of the uterus. In effect, our fahter killed her. I was nine years younger than Ralph; Cecil and I both thought that we would die at the age of 36, our mother's longevity. My mother did not leave a ghost behind; Fergus is lucky to have had her lingering presence to remind him how fleeting life is.

This is much better than ANGELA'S ASHES and more substantial and heartfelt. Those brothers in New York City even considered putting Angela's remains in a garbage bag out for the trash collectors to get.

So much for being a mother of boys -- you devote your young years to be their chaffeur, first teacher, cook, supporter and see that they are properly cared for, and what glory do you have when they are grown with families of their own.

I'm glad his mother was Irish. I've always like to think mine had been, with the blue eyes and light brown hair. We inherited my dad's dark eyes and dark brown hair; his father's family had mixed with the Cherokee Indians of the Smoky Mtns. When my mother was in her casket, they'd pulled her long hair behind her head and I kept asking, why does she look like a man? Such is life for the youngest left behind.

He has written books on diverse subjects, including the Underground Railroad and many articles published in "American Heritage,' 'Smithsonian Magazine,' and 'The Atlantic Monthly' among others. More power to him!

A small masterpiece.......2001-07-21

This exquisitely crafted memoir so powerfully conveys the author's terrible loss that at times it's almost excruciating, but like the loss itself, the project is redeemed by Bordewich's remarkable writing, suspenseful narrative and indefatigable reportage. It's not just an investigation of his amazing mother and the gaping hole she left in his life, it's also a profound meditation on memory and loss, not to mention a vivid portrait of its times. The book deserves a much wider audience.

A Moving Memoir.......2001-03-12

Fergus Bordewich gives us a beautifully written book that intertwines his mother's story with his own story of obsession, alocoholism and recovery as he comes to terms with her death. LaVerne Madigan was a classical scholar at New York University in the darkest years of the Depression, a member of the Communist Party and writer of sonnets. After her marriage, she was anything but the typical suburban mom, sharing with her young son her love for Latin phrases and compassion for minorities. She took him with her on trips to Indian Reservations as she crisscrossed the country for her job as executive director of the Association on American Indian Affairs. To him, she was a fearless woman who could accomplish anything. Her death in a horseback riding accident when Bordewich was 14 left him devastated. Bordewich takes the reader on a journey first of despair, depression and near suicide and then of recovery. An accomplished writer, he decides to research his mother's life and that of her parents and grandparents, separating truth from family legends. He walks in his mother's footsteps, fingers her papers and sniffs the stains her coffee cups left behind. In the process, he finds healing. He gives us an emotional and engrossing story readers won't want to put down.

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My Mother's Ghost
Fergus M. BORDEWICH
Manufacturer: Doubleday
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000ILI4OA

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In the spring of 1848 seventy-six slaves from the nation's capital hid aboard a schooner called the Pearl in an attempt to sail down the Potomac River and up the Chesapeake Bay to freedom in Pennsylvania. When inclement weather forced them to anchor for the night, the fugitive slaves and the ship's crew were captured and returned to Washington. Many of the slaves were sold to the Lower South, and two men sailing the Pearl were tried and sentenced to prison.

Recounting this harrowing tale from the preparations for escape through the participants' trial, Josephine Pacheco provides fresh insight into the lives of enslaved blacks in the District of Columbia, putting a human face on the victims of the interstate slave trade, whose lives have been overshadowed by larger historical events. Pacheco also details the Congressional debates about slavery that resulted from this large-scale slave escape attempt. She contends that although the incident itself and the trials and Congressional disputes that followed were not directly responsible for bringing about an end to the slave trade in the nation's capital, they played a pivotal role in publicizing many of the issues surrounding slavery. Eventually, President Millard Fillmore pardoned the operators of the Pearl.

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An all right book about an interesting character of Glen Canyon history

Trail on the water,
Pearl (Biddlecome) Baker
Manufacturer: Pruett Pub. Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: B0006C037M

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An all right book about an interesting character of Glen Canyon history.......2005-09-30

Beneath present-day Lake Powell's upper Good Hope Bay, where countless coves and the mouths of both Red Canyon and Blue Notch Canyon are, there lie the submerged remains of Bert Loper's old "hermitage"--a rough, tattered little shanty made of rectangular logs, and encircled by cottonwoods.
While Bert Loper was growing up in the late-1800s, his father abandoned his family, and his mother died. Bert left home, drifted across the West, worked many different jobs, grew older, and lived alone by the mouth of Red Canyon. He was there for six years, mining gold and rafting the river, and on at least one occasion during his years in Glen Canyon, he rowed supplies over 150 miles UP the Colorado River, from Lees Ferry to his now submerged cabin.
He never extracted much gold dust, but he grew to love the river and the land around it, and he sometimes took his wife back to see it, after he had moved away and gotten married.
Pearl Baker has written an interesting book about Bert, though it's not exactly gripping, and it's not exactly complete. It is, however, one of the ONLY books about this character who seems to pop up everywhere in the history of Glen Canyon and the Colorado. So for that alone it's worth something.
Other good books that mention Bert Loper or his hermitage include Gary Topping's "Glen Canyon and the San Juan," Edward Abbey's "Down the River," C.Gregory Crampton's "Ghosts of Glen Canyon," Stan Jones's "Ramblings by Boat and Boot," and Eileen Inskips's "Glen Canyon Before Lake Powell."

Northwest Sea Disasters: Beyond Acceptable Risk

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Invaluable reading for all boaters

Northwest Sea Disasters: Beyond Acceptable Risk
Leif Terdal , and John Keiter Keiter
Manufacturer: Trafford Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1412042003
Release Date: 2006-07-06

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Beyond Acceptable Risk reports on ten Northwest sea disasters of charter boats and commercial fishing vessels, and points out guidelines for safety at sea for recreational boaters and commercial operators.

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Invaluable reading for all boaters.......2005-09-08

I was given my copy of Northwest Sea Disasters: Beyond Acceptable risk by my good friend Ian Keiter, son of John Keiter. I have to say that it was valuable way beyond the $17 cover price. Not in that it was a personal gift, but rather becuase it taught me many important lessons about safety on the water that could otherwise only be learned through personal experience. And I hope that I never have to go through the experiences that the subjects of this book did.

On the whole, the book is a tad long winded. The book is divided into two sections. So far as I can tell, Leif Terdal wrote the first half, and John Keiter wrote the second half. The first half definitely drags, spending too much time recounting, word for word, the testimony of mulitiple different witnesses and survivors. One particular disaster, with many survivors (and sadly, many victims as well) seems to take up a full 25% of the book. The second half moves much more quickly and really gets to the meat of the story. It took me two months to get through the first half, and only one night to read the second.

Despite that, the entire book is packed with useful lessons. I think that it should be required reading for anyone who takes their boat offshore anywhere along the west coast, or anywhere else for that matter. Leif and John have taken the lessons that these people learned the hard way, and shared them with the public in a way that has never really been done before.

Emperor and Ancestor: State and Lineage in South China

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Emperor and Ancestor: State and Lineage in South China
David Faure
Manufacturer: Stanford University Press
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ASIN: 0804753180
Release Date: 2007-03-01

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This book summarizes twenty years of the author's work in historical anthropology and documents his argument that in China, ritual provided the social glue that law provided in the West. The book offers a readable history of the special lineage institutions for which south China has been noted and argues that these institutions fostered the mechanisms that enabled south China to be absorbed into the imperial Chinese state—first, by introducing rituals that were acceptable to the state, and second, by providing mechanisms that made group ownership of property feasible and hence made it possible to pool capital for land reclamation projects important to the state. Just as taxation, defense, and recognition came together with the emergence of powerful lineages in the sixteenth century, their disintegration in the late nineteenth century signaled the beginnings of a new Chinese state.

Regional Powerhouse: The Greater Pearl River Delta and the Rise of China

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Regional Powerhouse: The Greater Pearl River Delta and the Rise of China
Regional Powerhouse : The Greater Pearl River Delta and the Rise of China

Regional Powerhouse: The Greater Pearl River Delta and the Rise of China
Michael Enright , Edith Scott , and Ka-mun Chang
Manufacturer: Wiley
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0470821736

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"The Pearl River Delta has played a vital role in China's remarkable economic growth in the last 25 years. This book will help the reader understand the dynamics of the region, its contributors to China's development, and its outlook to the future."
--Sir John Bond
Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings plc.

"Michael Enright and Edith Scott, the top specialists on the Hong Kong economy, have here traced the big new development, the intimate linkages between Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta area to create a dynamism and vitality that rivals that of Shanghai. Thorough, informative, analytic."
--Ezra Vogel
Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences
Harvard University Asia Center

"Regional Powerhouse: The Greater Pearl River Delta and the Rise of China is a compelling and rigorous insight on the region that led China's economic miracle and continues today as a pivotal piece in the global economic jigsaw."
--Alasdair Morrison
Chairman and CEO, Asia
Morgan Stanley

"For those of us who live in this region, this book captures for the first time the full magnitude and complexity of the strength that has emerged from our unique interactions. For those living elsewhere, it makes a compelling case for why the Greater Pearl River Delta region should be in the forefront of their own understanding of an emerging China."
--Dr Victor K Fung
Chairman, The Greater Pearl River Delta Business Council
Chairman, The Li & Fung Group

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Regional Powerhouse: The Greater Pearl River Delta and the Rise of China .......2007-01-05

The book, "Regional Powerhouse: The Greater Pearl River Delta and the Rise of China" is a great resource for anyone who would like to understand the Pearl River Delta region of mainland China, but it does repeat itself a bit. It reads as though the authors all submitted different chapters, and no one checked to see if the material overlapped. However, the authors are highly knowledgeable, and the graphs and statistics really help the reader to grasp the eminent importance of the Greater Pearl River Delta region.

Regional Powerhouse : The Greater Pearl River Delta and the Rise of China.......2006-02-21

book in excellent condition.

Developing a Competitive Pearl River Delta In South China Under One Country-Two Systems

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Developing a Competitive Pearl River Delta In South China Under One Country-Two Systems

Manufacturer: Hong Kong University Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 9622097677

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The Greater Pearl River Delta in south China, with a population of 47 million, is one of the largest metropolitan regions in the world and one of the fastest growing regions in China. This edited volume examines the economic, social, environmental, infrastructural, institutional, and legal issues of developing the Greater Pearl River Delta, including Hong Kong and Macao, into a competitive region under "One Country, Two Systems."

The Hong Kong, Macao and Guangdong governments face a major challenge in developing the region, given its great disparity in wages and living standards. In the past, the region was mainly focused on one or two clearly defined central cities. Today, it is becoming increasingly polycentric with a number of former peripheral and rural areas developing into active economic centres in their own right, with resulting inter-city and cross-border competitive pressures and social problems. Globalization has made more acute the need for such regional cooperation between economies that are at very different levels of development and possess very different social, economic, political, and legal systems.

To meet this need, this book provides a comprehensive review of many important aspects of regional development in the Greater Pearl River Delta region under the "One Country Two Systems" principle, including its economic development, and examines how sustainable growth in terms of social equality, enhanced quality of life, better education, and employment opportunities for the people in the region can be achieved.

This book will be of great interest to those doing business in the Pearl River Delta, and in China more broadly. It is also of relevance to readers in China studies, development studies, economic development, geography, politics, sociology, environmental management, and regional development.

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I want those 4 hours of my life back from reading this TRASH

Updated Info

Horrible interpretation of facts.

If you like justice, read this book.

Not very well written

Severed Relations (True Crime)
Tim Hays
Manufacturer: Pinnacle
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ASIN: 0786005297

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I want those 4 hours of my life back from reading this TRASH.......2005-05-03

Mind Numbing. Mind Numbingly booooring. I started reading this book and was instantly comatose. I kept reading because I thought, "Surely, it has to get better, surely there has to be some plot twist." I kept waiting and waiting and waiting for it to grab my attention. For some sort of "gotcha!" that would make my catatonic state of mind worthwhile. Seriously, watching paint dry is more exciting than this book. It's written in such a dry and drab manner, you care nothing for any of the characters. I bought this at Half Price Books and I feel I over paid by at least 150%. I have seen it at garage sales and everytime I do, I think, "God that book was horrible, I really hate myself for finishing it!!" I swear I think this idiot author (and his obvious cronies who wrote the "good" reviews) shoved this out just to make a buck and could care less about his reputation. It will always make good kindling for a fire.

Updated Info.......2004-02-03

Hey Tim, Let's hope you have updated information when your book is re-released. Dave Wartelsky BCPD WSAR

Horrible interpretation of facts........2003-10-27

What Tim Hays does in this book should be considered a crime by itself.
The book is not well written, and has numerous holes. Clearly the writer did not do all the research he should have on the subject. His writings refelct an erronous interpretation of the fact, likely because he did not bother to get all the facts.

Final word of advice, don't buy this piece of trash, there are better books out there. I'm sorry i spent my money on it.

If you like justice, read this book........2003-10-04

Severed Relations is a tremendous book of crime and justice. I should knowÑ I wrote it. While my editor got a bit carried away with the photo insert, which had been provided to me by the detectives who caught and successfully closed the case, if you are interested in marital murderÑ and especially the Violence Against Women ActÑ I think you'll enjoy the narrative of the case, and the bringing to justice of the overbright woman who killed her husband after a lapse in good judgement resulted in a fit of rage.
Severed Relations will be reissued next Spring by my publisher, and the new edition will contain an update on all the characters involved in the crime and its prosecution.
I hope you enjoy Severed Relations. Write me if you do notÑ and, of course, if you do, too.

Not very well written.......1999-12-02

I THOUGHT THIS BOOK WAS A BIG DISAPPOINTMENT. iT IS NOT VERY WELL WRITTEN. NOT BOTHER TO BUY THIS BOOK.

5 Titles By Scott O'Dell : Sarah Bishop - The Black Pearl - Sing Down The Moon - Zia - Streams to the River, River to the Sea

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5 Titles By Scott O'Dell : Sarah Bishop - The Black Pearl - Sing Down The Moon - Zia - Streams to the River, River to the Sea
Scott O'Dell
Manufacturer: various
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000X29312

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multiple books ship as one item. save on shipping/handling charges.

Agriculture-Aquaculture in South China: The Dike-Pond System of the Zhujiang Delta

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Agriculture-Aquaculture in South China: The Dike-Pond System of the Zhujiang Delta
Kenneth Ruddle , and Zhong Gongfu
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Asia Today: Hong Kong (Video Tape: 50 Minutes) (VHS)

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Asia Today: Hong Kong (Video Tape: 50 Minutes) (VHS)
Landmark Media
Manufacturer: Landmark Media Inc
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: B000U9WWO8

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Asia today. Hong Kong [videorecording]; produced in association with Adler Media. Hong Kong. Falls Church, Va. : Landmark Media, c1998. Asia today. 1 videocassette (50 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. One of the five programs in the series, Asia today,which explores the rapid development taking place across Asia. A general introduction of Hong Kong. Now under Chinese rule, Hong Kong aims to remain a magnet for international business and trade.

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