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August 6, 1945, Hiroshima, Japan: The first atom bomb in history is dropped on a city, killing 100,000 people. Told through the memories of six survivors, this timeless, powerful, and compassionate work has become a classic that stirs the conscience of humanity. Considered a journalistic masterpiece, this book describes what happened during the days immediately following August 6, and it also includes a final chapter-"Aftermath"-written forty years after the bomb to explore the fates of those survivors. Complete and unabridged. 4 cassettes. Amazon.com Review
When the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, few could haveanticipated its potential for devastation. Pulitzer prize-winningauthor John Hersey recorded the stories of Hiroshima residents shortlyafter the explosion and, in 1946, Hiroshima was published,giving the world first-hand accounts from people who had survivedit. The words of Miss Sasaki, Dr. Fujii, Mrs. Nakamara, FatherKleinsorg, Dr. Sasaki, and the Reverend Tanimoto gave a face to thestatistics that saturated the media and solicited an overwhelmingpublic response. Whether you believe the bomb made the difference inthe war or that it should never have been dropped,"Hiroshima" is a must read for all of us who live in theshadow of armed conflict. ... Read more

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The horror of the atomic bomb and a wake-up call for the future
Published in The New Yorker in 1946, "Hiroshima" was the result of in-depth personal interviews with six of the victims of the atomic blast that hastened the surrender of the Japanese in WW2.These victims were ordinary people going about their ordinary lives.Then, on a hot August day, there was a bright flash of light and the world they lived in changed forever.It is estimated that 100,000 people were killed in the first blast and, over the next few years, more than another 100,000 died as a result of radiation poisoning.Through up-close and personal interviews, the victims Hersey interviewed became very real people to me and I will never forget their accounts of the dreadfulness they experienced.They included a Japanese Methodist minister who was educated in the United States, a war widow and mother of three young children, a German Jesuit priest, an office clerk and two different doctors.Through their eyes I saw the dead and dying, the horrible burns, the wounds that didn't heal, the destruction of homes and the displacement of families, the lack of medical care and the absolute devastation everywhere.Through this article, the American people became acutely aware of the horrific affects of nuclear weapons.

Forty years later, the author returned to Hiroshima to again interview these same six people. One of the women had become a nun, another woman suffered with radiation sickness for years, one of them tried to erase all memory of the bombing, one had become a prosperous doctor in his own private clinic,one of them suffered from his wounds for the rest of life, and one of them wound up touring the United States to raise money to rebuild his church and help young girls injured in the blast to have reconstructive surgery.And, during all these years, two of these interviewees had died.

The impact this small book had on me went well beyond its 152 pages.I will never forget it andcan't help wondering about what the result will be now that so many countries have nuclear weapons.This book makes it all real.It is both an excellent piece of journalism as well as a wake-up call for the future.

An immensely powerful pathetic argument
John Hersey's slim little volume here is an immensely powerful pathetic argument against the dropping of nuclear weapons in particular and against war in general.He deals with the aftermath of the lifetimes of several survivors of the dropping of the first nuclear weapon on an inhabited place.Many were killed instantly, others were crushed in the debris and rubble, and others weren't as lucky - dying a slow death from burns and radiation.

This is an immensely humanizing work that I wish those in power would read or at least be aware of before they made devastating decisions.We in human race have been lucky enough that we haven't had to write a sequel to this book based on a different war and a different place on the same scale. Sadly, we write little ones every day.

required reading
The book is great.Gives a unique view into Japanese survivors of the A-Bomb.However, this edition for what ever reason, does not include the Aftermath epilogue. I needed that chapter for my class and was very upset this book did not have it.

Most boring book I have ever read
This review may annoy people who feel strongly about the book or the incident, but Hiroshima really is the driest read imaginable. I had to teach it to an extension English class and when the time came to discussing the text, all 24 students owned up to not reading it because it bored them senseless. I couldn't feel angry about that because I too found it so dull that I struggled to get through it. I ended up supplementing it with other non-fiction texts. Three successive classes have all proclaimed it the most "boring" book they have ever been asked to read for English. This review is more for teachers pondering using it as a study text. Don't! Your students will thank you for it.

An intimate look at the innocent victims of total war
Hard not to feel nostalgic for days when war was waged by warriors. A certain civility in that. Rules of engagement. Codes of honor. You think of Greeks, and Samurai, and "The Charge of the Light Brigade;" of French and German soldiers who meet in No Man's Land to share Christmas treats then return to opposing trenches.

But then here comes Nanking, Stalingrad, London, Dresden, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki. Total war, as the phrase goes. A reversion to tribal days, perhaps, when warring foes fell men, women, and children alike, to void vengeance. A weapon now to instill dread, to sap the will, to raise the costs of conflict.

Hiroshima: August 6, 1945, 8:15 a.m. That's when John Hersey`s story begins, with "a noiseless flash." It begins not in the White House, nor in the Imperial Palace or the B-29 that dropped the bomb. But in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, where Toshiko has just turned to speak to a co-worker. In the Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital, where Dr. Sasaki walks down the corridor, a blood specimen in hand. In the minds of six who survived, at a half dozen points across the city, at the instant the atomic bomb exploded.

Here Hersey does not pontificate, excuse, blame, or rage. He reports. With meticulous detail, in short, clear, declarative sentences, with controlled understatement. To describe a human experience so beyond words and thought that it can be grasped only through the senses.

So, through the eyes and ears of these six hibakusha, literally, "explosion-affected persons," we see the scarred multitudes fleeing the fires, hear the shocked silence of the radiated dying, feel the flames, and smell the putrefying flesh. Working like a novelist, Hersey puts us there, scene upon scene, with dialogue and pertinent detail, to show the reality on a human scale. Not commenting, but showing:

"The hurt ones were quiet; no one wept, much less screamed in pain; no one complained; none of the many who died did so noisily; not even the children cried; very few people even spoke."

And:

"Mr. Tanimoto found about twenty men and women on the sandspit. He drove the boat onto the bank and urged them to get aboard. They did not move and he realized they were too weak to lift themselves. He reached down and took a woman by the hands, but her skin slipped off in huge, glovelike pieces."

Or:

"He saw a uniform. Thinking there was just one soldier, he approached with the water. When he had penetrated the bushes he saw there were about twenty men, and they were all in exactly the same nightmarish state: their faces were wholly burned, their eyesockets were hollow, the fluid from their melted eyes had run down their cheeks."

And:

"She kept the small corpse in her arms for four days, even though it started smelling bad on the second day."

Though a Yale and Cambridge educated journalist, novelist, and Pulitzer Prize winner, Hersey uses simple words, simple sentences, and a direct, conversational tone to tell a story that would dwarf any language. He gives the numbers: 6,000 degrees centigrade; 70,000 of 90,000 buildings destroyed; 100,000 killed, another 100,000 hurt in a city of 245,000. But cold facts, Hersey realizes, cannot encompass the horror. Only by reliving the day and its aftermath through the eyes, ears, and words of those who experienced it can we approach it. Simply and hauntingly, Hersey places us at ground zero, with austere language that vibrates with intensity:

"They told her that her mother, father, and baby brother...had all been given up as certainly dead...Her friends then left her to think that piece of news over. Later, some men picked her up by the arms and legs and carried her quite a distance to a truck. For about an hour, the truck moved over a bumpy road, and Miss Sasaki, who had become convinced that she was dulled to pain, discovered that she was not."

A year later, the August 31, 1946 edition of The New Yorker devoted all its space to Hersey's Hiroshima. Newspapers worldwide reprinted it; it was read aloud over radio. Since then it has, for good reason, become a classic of American nonfiction.

In its final chapter, Hersey quotes a Hiroshima priest who had been away from his mission house the morning of the attack:

"It seems logical that he who supports total war in principle cannot complain of a war against civilians. The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose. Does it not have material and spiritual evil as its consequences which far exceed whatever good might result? When will our moralists give us a clear answer to this question?"

Some 65 years later, while some still await an answer, Hersey's Hiroshima still breathes a clear reply.
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Bestselling author and columnist Carl Hiaasen returns with another hysterical mystery for kids set in Florida's Everglades.
 
Bunny Starch, the most feared biology teacher ever, is missing. She disappeared after a school field trip to Black Vine Swamp. And, to be honest, the kids in her class are relieved.
 
But when the principal tries to tell the students that Mrs. Starch has been called away on a "family emergency," Nick and Marta just don't buy it. No, they figure the class delinquent, Smoke, has something to do with her disappearance.
 
And he does! But not in the way they think. There's a lot more going on in Black Vine Swamp than any one player in this twisted tale can see. And Nick and Marta will have to reckon with an eccentric eco-avenger, a stuffed rat named Chelsea, a wannabe Texas oilman, a singing substitute teacher, and a ticked-off Florida panther before they really begin to see the big picture.
 
That's life in the swamp, kids.


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Disappointing
This one drags. Kids don't like to be bored, neither do adults. Too long, too slow, too obvious. Better luck next time.

Scat: A Fun Mystery with a Purpose
What kid wouldn't be curious about a book entitled "Scat"? This latest offering for children by Carl Hiaasen (Alfred A. Knopf 2009) is a mystery with an environmental motif.Nick, our main protagonist, is a student at the Truman School who desperately wants to see a panther on his biology field trip to the Black Vine Swamp in the Florida Everglades.

Besides Nick, we also meet the plot-driving character, Mrs. Starch, on the first page. Initially, Mrs. Starch appears to be your typical mean teacher. She is stern, demanding and entirely comfortable doling out humiliating punishments. But Mrs. Starch is far from a one-dimensional character. Her passion for biology is readily apparent and as the story moves forward we learn that Mrs. Starch drives a Prius with a "Save the Mantees" bumper sticker. (And anyone who loves cute little manatees can't be all bad, can she?)
During class, Mrs. Starch gets into a tussle with an unpopular and fairly menacing student nicknamed Smoke. Smoke is more interested in picking a zit than in answering her questions about Chapter 8. As punishment she tells him to write a 500 word essay about acne that he will read aloud to the class. In revenge he bites her pencil in two and swallows his half.

The altercation has lasting consequences that are fanned by a fire in the swamp during the field trip. The students clear out and are sent back to school, but Mrs. Starch goes back for a student's dropped inhaler and doesn't return.

Things get weird when Mrs. Starch doesn't show up at school the next day, but the inhaler is mysteriously returned to its owner. Then the Headmaster receives a letter from Mrs. Starch requesting a leave of absence to deal with a family emergency. The strange thing is that she has no family, at least none that she's listed in her employment information. So what's really happened to Truman's toughest teacher?
In a break from convention, the point of view shifts from Nick to various adults in the story. This gives us a wider perspective and introduces us to Smoke's father, grandmother, a couple of scheming oil prospectors, and a wacky but admirable tree hugger.

Full of plot twists, intrigue and suspense, this page-turning crowd-pleaser will delight fans of mysteries and environmental issues alike.

Environmental stereotype at core?
My 11 year old child read this book in a a couple of weeks, starting and completing the first three Harry Potters at the same time. Yes, my kid can read faster than me, or at least has the focus to do so.

On the way to school this morning, I asked my child to describe the book to me.

"Two kids, who's father lost an arm to a rocket in Iraq, trying to save a Panther who is being shot at by the employees of an Energy company that had set the everglades on fire." There was more detail, but this is the nut of the story as I understood it. I also have to pay attention to the traffic and kids; so I don't have bigger problems to deal with.

My ears usually go up when I hear this sort of thing, based on the non-stop green indoctrination attempts in our local school system. I hear the same stories from friends and family in other states, so our schools are not an isolated blip. I always enjoyed having my child come home from 5th grade AP classes telling me that the world was about to die. I'm not sure where this book falls.

I haven't read the book, but if someone wants to give an intellectually honest examination of how energy companies, capitalism, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are treated; I would be interested to read it.

If the author merely needed to create a boogie man for the story fine, if this is another green, anti-capitalism, anti-military indoctrination piece then lets hear that too.

The multiple re-postings of reviews from third parties is minimally helpfull especially when combined with a 5 star rating. I assume the posters didn't read the book either or work for the publisher.

Found this on Wikipedia:

"The search for oil in Florida began in 1901, but with no success. After almost 80 more dry holes had been drilled throughout the state, Humble Oil Company (later to become Exxon) discovered Florida's first producing oil well on September 26, 1943 in the northwest portion of what is now Big Cypress National Preserve. The wells currently produce about 20 barrels of oil per day"

Scat review by Melissa
I loved this!
The only thing I would do different is change the narrator.Ed Azner has a great voice, but I think the voice should be more southern and someone who knows how to pronounce the local words like Sabal, Miccosukee, etc.

AMAZING BOOK EVER
this book is the best, i had to do projects of it so many times, and i immediately knew what to do! ... Read more

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Resuming the dialogue where Book 1 left off, Conversations with God, Book 2 moves from personal issues to more global and political concerns. Included are questions about the nature of time and space and human sexuality, as well as geophysical and geopolitical considerations of worldwide implication.Amazon.com Review
In Conversations with God: Book II, Neale Walsch andGod resume their discussion and move on to larger topics than thepersonal issues addressed in their previous dialogue in Volume 1. For an"unedited transcript" of a conversation, Book II is remarkablywell organized and articulate, as if Walsch anticipatd our "but whatabout" questions before we asked them. The peculiar pair discuss time,space, politics, and even kinky sex, but Conversations with God:Book II isn't here for just shock value. It is an honest look atsome of the broad issues important to all of us on the planet, and asuggestion of how things might go if we are all willing to open ourminds and have our own conversations with divinity. --BrianPatterson ... Read more

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A Divine Dare!
This is my second, perhaps third pass through this wonderfully stated, simply phrased yet provocative work.Book two, in the CwG series, deals with the human being in a societal setting.The main themes pervading this work speak to problems and possible solutions for sustaining a healthy, vigorous, joyful, non-discriminatory way of life for everyone.This work asserts that there are two main prescriptions that have to be filled in order to begin the healing process, they are:1.) A personal and global shift of consciousness such that we internalize and behave according to the premise that there is no such thing as separation from God or each other.2.) Complete transparency in all respects with regard to: finance, government, corporate accounting etc.

At the risk of sounding obtuse or negative, the second recommendation as listed above will not work unless the first recommendation is implemented (naturally) but I don't see how people, especially the "haves" will want to even contemplate changing their consciousness (and conscience!) knowing that such a change will instigate theaforementioned corollary (i.e. transparency.)My observation via personal experience is that the wealthy are so extremely ensconced in a fear based mentality, that they would rather die themselves, than have to give up their profligate lifestyles.

This is a great work with incredible insights that are all at once: cogent, rational, loving and kind but perhaps somewhat chimerical in that in my estimation those whom have so much to give away are no where near ready to adjust their current station in life so that others may have the very basics of survival.I do hope I'm wrong.5 stars.

great read!
This book is very easy to comprehend, and it makes more sense than most anything I have ever learned about God. For me, this book represents truth.

Awesome power
I ordered this book and received it very quickly. The book was in great shape at an awesome price!! Very happy with the service.

Nothing but New Agte Beliefs wrapped in Jesus Christ's name.
This work of garbage is nothing more than a work of New Age teachers trying to trick you into believing it is of God and biblically sound. ANYONE that has studied the Bible for a little while WILL CLEARLY see this is NOT the Gospel of Jesus Christ. If, like me, you have ever studied or been into the New Age religion or the Occult, you WILL see clearly the teachings they try to pass off as the Gospel in this work of garbage!!!

If you are a true Christian, stay VERY far from this piece of trash unless it is to study what NOT to believe.
Go read a book called, "Christianity in Crisis" by Hank Hanegraaff It WILL blow your mind as to what these false teachers are really teaching and where these teachings come from. People you would never think of being a false teacher are in fact teaching the New Age occult. TBN is one of the BIGGEST promoters of that trash in fact.

I know you may not believe this so PLEASE go and check it out for yourselves.
Pastor Ron Godwin

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Skip book 2, Book 1 said it all and much better
I want to first start off by saying that Conversations with God- book 1, was a very good book.I was looking forward to book 2.

But wow.This book really stunk.And bad.I tried to like it.Yes, there were a few pages that added new concepts not covered in book 1.But the tone of this book was full of way too much ranting and railing that I could stomach.And he blew his cover, because in book 1, I could imagine God speaking like that, but in book 2- no way Jose.This was all Neale Donald Walsch imo.

I don't want to spend too much time, but if you look at some of the one star reviews, I couldn't agree more.I mean he gets off on this one world government shtick, evil corporations, Jimmy Carter-Bill Clinton loving, and just some weird beyond conspiracy / far left dare I say craziness. Now keep in mind, I'm no Right Wing Bible thumper, but it was a bit too much even for me.

So do yourself a favor.Don't waste your time or money on this book.Book 1 yes, book 2- gag me with a spoon.

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When a ferocious hurricane rips through Southern Florida, the con artists and carpetbaggers waste no time swarming over the disaster area.

Among the predators are Edie Marsh, an entrepreneurial young woman whose scheme to sleep with a Palm Beach Kennedy has fizzled, freeing her to concoct a colossal insurance rip-off; Lester Maddox Parsons, a murderous ex-con whose violent encounter with a game warden has left him with the fitting nickname of "Snapper"; and Avila, a crooked building inspector-turned-roofer, who dabbles somewhat unsuccessfully in the occult.

Caught in the middle are Max and Bonnie Lamb, newlyweds torn in wildly different directions by the storm. It is Max's fateful decision to abort their Disney World honeymoon and race to Dade County to see the terrible devastation. Armed with a video camera, the ambitious young advertising executive can't wait to show his hurricane tapes to his buddies back in New York. Over Bonnie's objections, Max eagerly sets out through the rubble, debris, and mayhem -- and promptly vanishes. The only clue to his whereabouts: a runaway monkey. But there's also a man called Skink who has devoted his very strange existence to saving Florida from the kinds of people blown in by the hurricane. It is he, crazed and determined, who prowls the swath of the storm and forever changes the lives of Max, Bonnie, Edie, and the others.

Their paths -- tangled before they even know it -- come together in a novel that continues the hilarious and scathing muckraking tradition that Carl Hiaasen has so mercilessly made his own. In Stormy Weather, there is no calm eye.

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That's their nature

Do you like "crazy" in your books? Carl Hiaasen is one of a select company of writers that dishes up "crazy" all the way.The setting for Stormy Weather is southern Florida immediately after a devastating hurricane. Entire neighborhoods are wrecked, in some cases due to reckless disregard of building codes. Looters, rubberneckers and opportunists are drawn to Dade County in droves, showing the worst in human nature--but so hilariously.

Hiaasen's cast of characters are all outrageous in one way or another, and their stories inevitably intersect:

* Max and Bonnie Lamb, honeymooners from New York; their young marriage goes off the rails when Max is abducted while avidly making vacation videos of the destruction.

* Skink, a one-eyed ex-governor of Florida who got offside with developers, quit his job, and went troppo; Skink abducts Max because he was outraged by the ad man's voyeurism.

* Augustine Herrera, a skull-juggling coma survivor searching for his uncle's escaped exotic animal collection, rescues the stranded Bonnie Lamb and wins her over with his rough charm.

* Snapper and Edie, a couple of grifters teaming up to commit insurance fraud, pick the wrong scammer to scam; their plan escalates wildly out of control, as you know from the beginning it will.

* A spectacularly corrupt building inspector trying to do "damage control" by sacrificing animals to the Santeria god Chango; Avila is gored by a reluctant goat and later reinvents himself as a Cuban "rafter."

The action takes place in hotels and roofless houses, in a remote bivouac in the Keys, and in the post-apocalyptic city streets and highways. The characters inflict outrageous damage on each other, but in the end most of the "good guys" go on to rebuild new and better lives, while the "bad guys" come to fitting ends.

Hiaasen has a killingly funny way of delivering wry, sarcastic paragraphs that cut to the quick of human nature.I listened to the audio, narrated by George Wilson whose gravelly rendition amped up the acerbic humor with every intonation. Read or listen, your choice, but if you like the work of Christopher Moore, Douglas Adams, or Kurt Vonnegut, you'll probably love this book. I certainly did.

Linda Bulger, 2010

Carl Hiaison is the best.
I love all of Carl Hiaison's books.Partly because he writes about the Florida I live in and love, even with all its quirks and crooks. His sense of humor matches mine so am always amused by the characters he writes about.Would it be so that we ever had a Governor with ethics such as Skink!The hurricane and the aftermath is much the same as Hurricane Andrew, when every cockroach from Florida and reprobates from other states came for the picking of anything they could get.Skink had the right idea.Even if you don't live in Florida, I think you will like this book and be able to compare it somewhat to where ever you live.

Stormy
THE SETUP
A hurricane devastates South Florida..Newlywed tourists Max and Bernie Lamb drive down from Disney World, because Max is obsessed with making home movies of the damage and devastation.Eddie Marsh who has been trolling for Kennedys in Palm Beach, teams up with ex-con Snapper (aka Lester Madox Parsons), to pull an insurance con.That's the setup.

THE OTHER MAJOR CHARACTERS
Avila - a former (crooked, of that's not a redundancy) Dade County building inspector
Tony Torres - a crooked house trailer salesman
Skink (do not confuse with "Snapper") -aka Clinton Tyree - recluse ex-governor of Florida
Jim Tile - a Florida Highway Patrolman, and friend of Skink
Brenda Roarke - policewoman, Jim Tile's girlfriend
Augustine - an insurance-settlement-wealthy semi-retired guy, somewhat a young version of Skink.
Ira Jackson - a NYC thug who had purchased a house trailer for his mother (killed in the storm) from Tony Torres
Fred Dove - property insurance adjuster, seduced by Eddie Marsh.

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
"Stormy Weather" fairly accurately describes South Florida in the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew in 1992--with the exception that the chaos and desperation are understated.Simply driving to friends or relatives (or trying to return home) was no easy matter with major highways full of trees, downed live electric lines, and no traffic lights.Whole subdivisions were inaccessible to ice-trucks and other relief when it finally came.The incredibly oppressive heat and humidity after the storm, for weeks without electricity are not described.For the few lucky who had generators, gasoline was hard to find, because the local gas stations were closed for lack of electricity to run the pumps.Dozens of fires were caused by overheated generators and many other deaths by related accidents.Much of the county was without water.As for the people, it's a numbers game, with a population of 5 million, there has to be (and are) thousands as insane as the characters in "Stormy Weather", and like California, South Florida has way more than its fair share of crazies.

CAVEATS
"Stormy Weather" is a slow roller-coaster ride--lacking clear buildup, climax, and resolution.Often slow--the end is welcome.

"Stormy Weather" is not quite so surreal as most other adult Hiaasen novels, mostly because the real actual historic situation was surreal.

VERDICT
An entertaining read, filled with bizarre characters.

Loved Stormy Weather!
I love, love, LOVE Carl Hiaasen!This book did not disappoint!

My father has been reading Mr. Hiaasen's books for years and years now.He recommended them to me and gave me Skinny Dip to read first.From the first page I was hooked!I have now read almost all of his books.He is so funny!The writing is some of the best I have ever had the pleasure of reading.Stormy Weather was one of my favorites.It had everything!From wild, thieving monkeys, to criminals, to con-artists, to gangsters, to the always present normal couple of characters.And of course you have to pay homage to "The Captain"!

Bottom line is that this man is a genious and I will read ANYTHING he every writes!

One of Hiassen's better books
short review - a great summer read and a very good Carl book, which means Florida and odd characters. ... Read more

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Dostoyevskys titanic novels are transformed into spellbinding drama. The passionate Karamazov brothers spring to life, led by their rogue of a father, who entertains himself by drinking, womanizing, and pitting his three sons against each other. In The Idiot, meet the childlike Prince Myshkin, as he returns to the decadent social whirl of St. Petersburg. The two most beautiful women in town compete for his affections, in a duel that grows increasingly dangerous.

A L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: (The Brothers Karamazov) John de Lancie, Sharon Gless, Arye Gross, Harry Hamlin, Kaitlin Hopkins, Joseph Mascolo, Richard Hoyt Miller, John Randolph, John Rubinstein, Tom Virtue and Ping Wu; (The Idiot) Edward Asner, Kate Asner, Angela Bettis, Arye Gross, John Kapelos, Robert Machray, Jon Matthews, Johanna McKay, Paul Mercier, Laurel Moglen, Michael Rivkin, Peggy Roeder and Douglas Weston. ... Read more

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It takes long to read but will change your life!
The Brothers Karamozov is an epic yet personal novel that will knock the wind out of you.My favorite character is the vapid Grushenka who bedevils all of the slightly twisted Karamozov brothers and Father.A great bookfor its religious, historic, and lyrical values.

Best novel I've ever read!!
"Brothers Karamozov" is so good right from the first paragraph that I literally could not put it down -- I read it while cooking, during an ultrasound exam (!), even for 5 minutes in church!It's a grand,sweeping epic of a novel, which reads like the latest page-turner on thebest seller list -- the characters are so vivid & real & 3D, themost amazing & appalling things keep happening to them and keep beingcaused by them, & yet at the same time it's a fascinating look at 19thcent. Russian life & mores, at religion, at the psychology offamilies....just a FANTASTIC novel, I've never read a finer one!!

Immense, powerful, thought provoking, difficult, amazing
This amazing epic is a story on four levels.It is a murder mystery and a character study (on a grand scale).It is also a treatise on religion as well as monumental expose of pre Bolshevik Russia. One of the truly greatnovels I have ever read.Enormous in scope, microscopic in detail. Achallengingread that will leave you drained but wanting more. ... Read more

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Grange, Florida, is famous for its miracles--the weeping fiberglass Madonna, the Road-Stain Jesus, the stigmata man. And now it has JoLayne Lucks, unlikely winner of the state lottery.

Unfortunately, JoLayne's winning ticket isn't the only one. The other belongs to Bodean Gazzer and his raunchy sidekick, Chub, who believe they're entitled to the whole $28 million jackpot. And they need it quickly, to start their own underground militia before NATO troops invade America.

But JoLayne Lucks has her own plans for the Lotto money--an Eden-like forest in Grange must be saved from strip-malling. When Bode and Chub brutally assault her and steal her ticket, JoLayne vows to track them down, take it back--and get revenge.

The only one who can help is Tom Krome, a big-city investigative journalist now bitterly consigned to writing frothy features for a midsized central Florida newspaper. With a persuasive nudge from JoLayne, Krome is about to become part of a story that's bigger and more bizarre than anything he's ever covered.

Chasing two heavily armed psychopaths down the coast of Florida is reckless enough, but Tom's got other problems--the murderous attention of a jealous judge; an actress wife who turns fugitive to avoid divorce court; an editor who speaks in tongues; and Tom's own growing fondness for the future millionairess with whom he's risking his neck.

The pursuit takes them from the surreal streets of Grange to a buzzard-infested island deep in Florida Bay, where they finally catch up with the fledgling militia--Chub, Bode Gazzer, a newly recruited convenience-store clerk and their baffled hostage, a Hooters waitress.

The climax explodes with the hilarious mayhem that is Carl Hiaasen's hallmark. Lucky You is his funniest, most deliriously gripping novel yet.


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Playaway is the easiest way to listen to a book on the go. An all-in-one format, the player and content are combined in one 2 ounce unit and it comes with everything you need to start listening immediately. No separate player needed, no CDs, no downloads - just press play!

"**REVISED 2008 TOUR EDITION** A timely docudrama about The Washington Post's decision to publish the Pentagon Papers, a top secret study documenting U.S. involvement in Vietnam. The subsequent trial tested the parameters of the First Amendment, pitting the public's right to know against the government's desire for secrecy. BONUS CONTENT - Panel discussion with former Nixon White House counsel John Dean, Congresswoman Jane Harman and journalist Robert Scheer. Written by Geoffrey Cowan and Leroy Aarons Starring John Heard, Susan Sullivan, James Gleason, Bo Foxworth, Diane Adair, John Getz, Raphael Sbarge, Russell Soder, Peter Van Norden, Tom Virtue, Geoffrey Wade Directed by John Rubenstein" ... Read more

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California attorney Greg Monarch is back (after The Perfect Witness), and this time out he's helping old girlfriend Sarah Trant in her last-ditch efforts to avoid execution. Sarah is claiming "actual innocence" as her final defense, saying that she was framed for the murder of old Brewster Tomaz, that she didn't cut his throat and leave him dead in El Nido Creek. Greg's investigation turns up not only flagrant trial misconduct by the prosecution but also a dark tangle of lies and twisted relationships that have pushed the citizens of seemingly peaceful El Nido Valley into a conspiracy of silence. And when Sarah's original defense lawyer suddenly dies of a mysterious illness, Greg begins to realize just how dangerous his investigation is. Crime reporter Siegel has again crafted a thriller filled with a wealth of legal detail and realistic characters that will appeal to Phillip Margolin fans. Highly recommended.ARebecca House Stankowski, Purdue Univ. Lib., Hammond, IN ... Read more

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Playaway is the easiest way to listen to a book on the go. An all-in-one format, the player and content are combined in one 2 ounce unit and it comes with everything you need to start listening immediately. No separate player needed, no CDs, no downloadsjust press play!

First published in 1922, Babbitt is an authentic modern American classic, a biting satire of middle-American values that retains much of its poignancy today. George F. Babbitt, Lewis's outwardly successful but inwardly unhappy real estate salesman, still seems real. His story makes engrossing reading and is ideal for audio listening. With Babbitt himself at the center of every scene, it is impossible for listeners plagued by frequent interruptions to lose track of the story line. Narrator Wolfram Kandinsky has a voice that many listeners may find grating; however, his reading here conveys an appropriate ironic tone that is especially apt when he reads Babbitt's own lines. ... Read more

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BOOK ONE: 1.) The Language of the SoulYour Personal Relationship with God; 2.) Life's Great QuestionsCreating your Desires, Facing Lifes Challenges, Making Relationships Work; 3.) Mastering Everyday LifeDefining Your Values, Making Money, Staying Healthy; .................BOOK TWO: 4.) Creating your Future in the Eternal Moment - Sane Sex, Sacred Sex; 5.) Teaching Children Wisdom - The New Spiritual Politics; 6.) Building the New Society - Creating Global Loving Consciousness ... Read more

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Playaway is the easiest way to listen to a book on the go. An all-in-one format, the player and content are combined in one 2 ounce unit and it comes with everything you need to start listening immediately. No separate player needed, no CDs, no downloadsjust press play!

"STARRING (IN ORDER OF SPEAKING)BARBARA KLEIN as Lieutenant (JG) Dorsey Hough/Elanor ""Shoo"" HolbrookMITCHELL HEBERT as Colonel Martin J. CaseyLEONOR CHAVES as Private Davis/Sue Casey/Francine Dillard/Spanish CivilianMICHAEL KRAMER as Colonel William Henderson/Spanish OfficialMICHAEL GOODWIN as General James Mattoon ScottLAURA GIANNARELLI as Marge CaseyKEVIN MURRAY as Paul Girard/Saul LiebermanTERRENCE CURRIER as Senator Frederick Prentice/General Barney RutowskiAMY MCWILLIAMS as Esther TownsendEDWARD ASNER as President Jordan LymannHELEN HEDMAN as Mrs. Lyman/Toby Casey/StewardessSENATOR FRED THOMPSON as Senator Raymond ClarkNAT BENCHLEY as Christopher Todd/Colonel John R. BroderickMICHAEL RUSSOTTO as Art Corwin/Alex WhitneyPRODUCING DIRECTOR: SUSAN ALBERT LOEWENBERGASSOCIATE PRODUCER: SUSAN RAABRECORDING ENGINEER: GARY JAFFEL.A. Theatre Works, founded in 1974, produces the world's finest audio theatre. Our catalogue features the largest collection of classic and contemporary plays, recorded in state-of-the-art sound quality, starring today's most popular and acclaimed actors. To receive a free catalogue from L.A. Theatre Works e-mail: latw@latw.org or visit: www.latw.org." ... Read more

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California attorney Greg Monarch is back (after The Perfect Witness), and this time out he's helping old girlfriend Sarah Trant in her last-ditch efforts to avoid execution. Sarah is claiming "actual innocence" as her final defense, saying that she was framed for the murder of old Brewster Tomaz, that she didn't cut his throat and leave him dead in El Nido Creek. Greg's investigation turns up not only flagrant trial misconduct by the prosecution but also a dark tangle of lies and twisted relationships that have pushed the citizens of seemingly peaceful El Nido Valley into a conspiracy of silence. And when Sarah's original defense lawyer suddenly dies of a mysterious illness, Greg begins to realize just how dangerous his investigation is. Crime reporter Siegel has again crafted a thriller filled with a wealth of legal detail and realistic characters that will appeal to Phillip Margolin fans. Highly recommended.ARebecca House Stankowski, Purdue Univ. Lib., Hammond, IN Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. ... Read more

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SPHERE READ BY EDWARD ASNER. AUDIO BOOK WITH 2 CASSETTES, 1987 EDITION. ABRIDGMENT. 3 HOURS LONG. ... Read more