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Part of the Nature's Children Collection (Set 5). Describes the physical characteristics, natural habitat, behavior, diet, world distribution, domestic types, and care required of this animal sometimes chosen as a pet. Filled with color photographs as well as a glossary of words to know and an index. (Grades: 3-8) ... Read more

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This book of photographs has been put together by a consortium of international publishers. The editors' choice of the 150 most superb and evocative photographs has been gathered from photographers, libraries and private collectors around the world. ... Read more

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Pen and ink drawings for each month of the year. ... Read more

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A Picture Book
Since there is no description of this book, yet the Used Book prices are so high, I thought to write a little review/description to let you know about this book.The 3 star rating is not to say the book is great or bad, I merely picked a middle number as the review interface demands I do so.

I stumbled across its title "A Mendocino Year" under the category of Mendocino memoir.In a way it is a memoir, without text though.Small drawings of local produce, animals, birds, and life within the Mendocino landscape are what make up this memoir, organized by months of the year.For example, January:Drawings by Ms. Russell of what January in Mendocino meant to her that year:a pony, stacks of firewood, a seed catalog, a wood burning stove.

Clever it tells the sweet story of one year in the remote beauty of Mendocino, but if you are looking for a classic text memoir of a resident's experience in this area, this is not that kind of book. ... Read more

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Beth Candler's life is good. She finally realizes there is more to living than working all her waking hours as an accountant. She finds a new love, Louise Stephens, and moves into a home in the country. The death of Beth's mother brings her brother and sister-in-law back into her life. Beth has it all, and her sister-in-law wants it. Lou is only too willing to oblige. When Beth dies in a tragic accident, her best friend Janet Evans takes charge.

Janet is relentless as she uses all her skills as an attorney to prove Beth's death as murder by the very women she loved. Janet risks her practice while enlisting her life partner, their friends, and the legal system to discover a truth she had rather not known - The Arcanum of Beth. ... Read more

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Promising first novel
Beth Chandler has been living a very quiet life as she helped take care of her parents, but now she's ready to spread her wings and find something to do with her life besides work as an accountant.Her best friend lawyer Janet Evans and her partner Ellen Harris decide to throw a sort of "coming out" party for Beth, but it has unintended consequences.One of the guests is Louise Stephens, local playgirl, who sweeps Beth off of her feet.Janet is unhappy when Beth suddenly moves in with Louise and moves her mother in, too.Beth seems to become progressively more unhappy, but she won't discuss what's wrong, so Janet doesn't feel she can get involved in the situation.She'll come to regret that when things become more complicated by Beth's brother Will and his wife Patti showing up.Patti and Louise spend too much time together and rumors are flying.Janet's concern for her friend turns into anger when Beth is suddenly killed in an "accident" that seems more than suspicious.No one knows until then that Beth gave Janet complete control over her estate and Janet has no intention of turning over anything to Beth's family until she has checked out the circumstances of her death more thoroughly.Janet and Ellen are pretty sure they know what happened.The tough part is going to be finding the evidence to prove it.Before she died, Beth whispered a clue to Janet, who is a master puzzle solver.Finding the answer will be the solution to the arcanum of Beth.

The Arcanum of Beth is a different type of mystery.There's never much doubt about what happened to Beth.The trick to the story is having Janet collect the evidence against two opponents who are very wily without having an "accident" herself.Russell has to be given credit for having the courage to kill a very sympathetic character.She spends a lot of time getting the reader to invest in Beth finally finding some happiness for herself and then goes through with the murder.Though the reader knows from the blurb on the back of the book that this is going to happen, there's still the hope that somehow the inevitable will be avoided.Many writers won't kill a strong character and end up weakening the story.This is a bitter sweet story that is sometimes difficult to read for that reason, but it also makes it stand out from the crowd.There are some parts of the story that seem a little contrived, but not enough to interfere with reading it.

The Arcanum of Beth is a promising first novel from Mary Jane Russell.It's worth reading for several hours of entertainment and it will be interesting to see how Russell develops her talent in future novels.

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Publisher: Privately printedPublication date: 1885Subjects: Firth, Jane Frances RussellSocial Science / Feminism ... Read more

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Chapters: Rechelle Hawkes, Deb Covey, Peter Milkovich, Tracey Fuchs, Russell Garcia, Jane Sixsmith, Shahbaz Ahmed, Sean Kerly, Sharon Buchanan, Jacques Brinkman, Paul Chohan, Sharon Creelman, Karen Brown, Carina Benninga, Stephen Martin, Jackie Pereira, Trevor Porritt, Liane Tooth, Patrick Burrows, Richard Leman, Marcia Pankratz, Paul Barber, Kulbir Bhaura, Michael York, Jay Stacy, Patty Shea, Elspeth Denning, Michael Omondi, Sally Carbon, Richard Dodds, Tracey Belbin, Sheryl Johnson, Graham Reid, Stephen Batchelor, Noor Holsboer, Barbara Marois, Colin Batch, Ronald Jansen, Joaquim Malgosa, Marc Delissen, Jimmy Kirkwood, Jon Potter, Michelle Conn, Mary Nevill, Floris Jan Bovelander, Ian Taylor, Cheryl Van Kuren, Helen Van Der Ben, Andreas Keller, Chris Gifford, Cees Jan Diepeveen, Jill Atkins, Sophie Von Weiler, Alison Ramsay, Ian Bird, Martine Ohr, Marcelo Garraffo, Det de Beus, Laurien Willemse, Ross Rutledge, Nick Sandhu, Lisanne Lejeune, Marjolein Eijsvogel, Robert Clift, Ingrid Wolff, Vickey Dixon, Anneloes Nieuwenhuizen, Beth Beglin, Taco Van Den Honert, Annemieke Fokke, Marieke Van Doorn, Aletta Van Manen, Carsten Fischer, Erik Parlevliet, Volker Fried, René Klaassen, Maurits Crucq, Susie Wollschläger, Martyn Grimley, Caren Jungjohann, Mohammed Shahid, Gabriel Minadeo, Marisa López, Hendrik Jan Kooijman, Gabriela Sánchez, Marc Benninga, Wendy Fraser, Frank Leistra, Laura Mulhall, Stefan Blöcher, Alejandro Doherty, Yvonne Buter, Hidde Kruize, Edgardo Pailos, Tim Steens, Gabriela Liz, Michael Hilgers, Ken Wark, Christine Ferneck, Sandra Levy, Victoria Carbó, Ken Goodwin, Marcela Richezza, Heiner Dopp, Veryan Pappin, Julie Cook, Xavier Escudé, Gert Jan Schlatmann, Willemien Aardenburg, Patrick Faber, Andrea Fioroni, María Alejandra Tucat, Imran Sherwani, Emanuel Roggero, Marcela Hussey, Alina Vergara, María Gabriela Pazos, Alejandra Palma, María Colombo, Alejandro Siri, María Bengochea, Moira Brinnand, Marcella Place, J...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2171696 ... Read more

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Chapters: Russell Garcia, Jane Sixsmith, Sean Kerly, Karen Brown, Jack Macbryan, Stephen Martin, Richard Leman, Paul Barber, Kulbir Bhaura, Richard Dodds, Helen Grant, Stephen Batchelor, Jimmy Kirkwood, Mary Nevill, Ian Taylor, Carolyn Reid, Jill Atkins, Mandy Nicholls, Robert Clift, Kathryn Johnson, Vickey Dixon, Tammy Miller, Susan Fraser, Martyn Grimley, Edwin Richards, Wendy Fraser, Sandy Lister, Reggie Pridmore, John Yate Robinson, Joanne Thompson, Harry Freeman, Veryan Pappin, Stanley Shoveller, Imran Sherwani, Jackie Mcwilliams, Bertrand Turnbull, Lisa Bayliss, Ivan Laing, Barbara Hambly, Frederick Lindsay, David Faulkner, Louis Baillon, Philip Turnbull, Frederick Phillips, James Williams, James Duthie, Harold Cassels, Norman Stevenson, Wilfred Pallott, Alexander Burt, Llewellyn Evans, Anthony John Robinson, Hew Fraser, Frank Reynolds, William Lindsay, Anthony Nunn, Mark Precious, Robert Adlard, Eric Green, William Orchardson, Hugh Walker, James Harper-Orr, Harvey Wood, Moira Macleod, David Brodie, Charles Shephard, Percy Rees, Frederick Connah, Edgar Page, Richard Lyne, Gerald Logan, Alan Noble, Hugh Neilson. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 157. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Russell Simon Garcia (born June 20, 1970 in Portsmouth, England) is a former international field hockey player, who won the golden medal with the British squad at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. At the age of eighteen years and three months Garcia was and still is the youngest Olympic champion from Great Britain in history. He played international hockey between 1988-2000, awarded his first cap aged seventeen. He was invited back into the British team in January 2004 to try and strengthen the squad preparing for the Athens Olympics, being cut in the final selection period. Garcia played over 300...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3076611 ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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An Excerpt from the book-


I

BEGINNINGS


One look back--as we hurry o'er the plain,
Man's years speeding us along--
One look back! From the hollow past again,
Youth, come flooding into song!
Tell how once, in the breath of summer air,
Winds blew fresher than they blow;
Times long hid, with their triumph and their care,
Yesterday--many years ago!
E. E. BOWEN.


The wayfarer who crosses Lincoln's Inn Fields perceives in the midst of
them a kind of wooden temple, and passes by it unmoved. But, if his
curiosity tempts him to enter it, he sees, through an aperture in the
boarded floor, a slab of stone bearing this inscription:


"On this spot was beheaded
William Lord Russell,
A lover of constitutional liberty,
21st July, A.D. 1683."[1]


Of the martyr thus temperately eulogized I am the
great-great-great-great-grandson, and I agree with The Antiquary, that
"it's a shame to the English language that we have not a less clumsy way
of expressing a relationship of which we have occasion to think and
speak so frequently."

Before we part company with my ill-fated ancestor, let me tell a story
bearing on his historical position. When my father was a cornet in the
Blues, he invited a brother-officer to spend some of his leave at Woburn
Abbey. One day, when the weather was too bad for any kind of sport, the
visitor was induced to have a look at the pictures. The Rembrandts, and
Cuyps, and Van Dykes and Sir Joshuas bored him to extremity, but
accidentally his eye lit on Hayter's famous picture of Lord Russell's
trial, and, with a sudden gleam of intelligence, he exclaimed, "Hullo!
What's this? It looks like a trial." My father answered, with modest
pride--"It is a trial--the trial of my ancestor, William, Lord Russell."
"Good heavens! my dear fellow--an ancestor of yours tried? What a
shocking thing! _I hope he got off._"

So much for our Family Martyr.

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