Posts Tagged ‘Where’

Where the Wild Things Are

February 25th, 2010

Where the Wild Things Are

Review

Where the Wild Things Are is one of those truly rare books that can be enjoyed equally by a child and a grown-up. If you disagree, then it’s been too long since you’ve attended a wild rumpus. Max dons his wolf suit in pursuit of some mischief and gets sent to bed without supper. Fortuitously, a forest grows in his room, allowing his wild rampage to continue unimpaired. Sendak’s color illustrations (perhaps his finest) are beautiful, and each turn of the page brings the discovery of a new wonder. The wild things–with their mismatched parts and giant eyes–manage somehow to be scary-looking without ever really being scary; at times they’re downright hilarious. Sendak’s defiantly run-on sentences–one of hi
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Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman

January 17th, 2010

Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman [Unabridged 11-CD Set] (AUDIO CD/AUDIO BOOK)

The bestselling author of Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, and Under the Banner of Heaven delivers a stunning, eloquent account of a remarkable young mans haunting journey.

Like the men whose epic stories Jon Krakauer has told in his previous bestsellers, Pat Tillman was an irrepressible individualist and iconoclast. In May 2002, Tillman walked away from his $3. 6 million NFL contract to enlist in the United States Army. He was deeply troubled by 9/11, and he felt a strong moral obligation to join the fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Two years later, he died on a desolate hillside in southeastern Afghanistan.

Though obvious to most of the two dozen soldiers on the scene that a ranger in Tillmans own platoon had fired t
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On the Street Where You Live

September 27th, 2009

On the Street Where You Live

Review
Emily Graham knows what it’s like to have enemies. The pretty New York attorney–a millionaire due to a lucky stock market break–has been sued by her greedy ex-husband and stalked by a man who thinks she helped his mother’s murderer escape punishment. But when she buys her great-great-grandmother’s childhood home in the sleepy resort town of Spring Lake, Emily thinks her new life will be saner, even though five other young women, including Emily’s ancestor Madeline Shapley, have disappeared from Spring Lake under creepy circumstances over the past century. No sooner has Emily moved in than she starts receiving frightening, anonymous messages. Worse, when she breaks ground for a backyard pool, the backhoe
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Where Echoes Live {Unabridged Audio}

September 20th, 2009

Where Echoes Live {Unabridged Audio} (Sharon McCone, 12)
From the gold rush, California applicants have diversion of lake water tufa isolated, revealing the fragility, the formation of other minerals in the basin of the lake. Now, a local environmental group seeking to block the last invasion of developers - a huge rock Transpacific financed by the interest of U.S. and Hong Kong, which seems to be behind a series of attacks, disappearances, and shady land deals. In this tough lunar landscape of San Francisco walks Pi Sharon McCone, the search for a missing local eccentric. When the bullet ridden body of investors in the silvery water of the lake, McCone finds herself on a twisted path that leads to San Francisco and then back to the tables in the desert, where a mysterious killer p
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Where To Go When

August 22nd, 2009

Where To Go When (Eyewitness Travel Guides)
The Review Thirty destinations presented for each month, with 11 covered in depth. Tuscany, Italy is recommended for October, when the grape and olive harvest takes place and where the mushrooms, prized truffles and other specialties appear on regional menus. The list includes six days journey on road "Chianti", from Florence to Siena. - USA Today. com Answer difficult questions seeking adventurous travelers today, where is the best place for beach holiday in March? What are my options if June is the only time you take a holiday? I'm getting married in November, which would be the perfect place for a honeymoon? "This is the perfect book for anyone planning a vacation or a big adventure. Find ou
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