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Dark Moon Crossing (Kendall O'Dell Mystery series)

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Dark Moon Crossing
Dark Moon Crossing
This autor's books just keep getting better!

Dark Moon Crossing (Kendall O'Dell Mystery series)
Sylvia Nobel
Manufacturer: Nite Owl Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0966110595

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The third adventure in Sylvia Nobel's mystery series, based on actual newspaper articles, plunges reporter Kendall O'Dell into the center of the volatile and controversial issues surrounding ranchers and illegal immigrant crossings at the U.S./Mexican border. When she agrees to investigate the disappearance of a co-worker's relatives who mysteriously vanish after crossing into Arizona, and attempts to tie together frightening UFO sightings, mutilated cattle, and missing immigrants, Kendall's life hangs in the balance when she finally exposes the hideous secret.

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Dark Moon Crossing.......2006-01-05

I loved this book as well as all her others. The problem is now I have to wait impatiently for her next book. I don't think I can get enough of this witty author. Now that's the sign of a good writer! I want more!!!

Dark Moon Crossing.......2004-02-03

Mrs. Nobel has done it again!! I could NOT put this book down. It was the perfect comination, just enough romance and compasstion to touch your heart and spooky enough to make you gasp. My kudos to Mrs. Nobel!! I am looking forward to the next book.

This autor's books just keep getting better!.......2003-04-18

I have bought all 3 of this author's books and find I am never disappointed. This book "Dark Moon Crossing" in particular is a "can't put it down" novel. I am an avid reader of mystery novels and I didn't foresee what was coming in the end! Another good job Sylvia Nobel!!

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More of the White City but different
Lyrical but Insubstantial
Confusing!!!
Poetic, flowing prose

Moon's Crossing: A Novel
Barbara Croft
Manufacturer: Mariner Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0618341536

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A stunning, cinematic debut novel set at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, Moon's Crossing explores a unique time in American history, when the romantic heritage of the nineteenth century merged with the industrial temperament of the modern age.
Jim Moon, an idealistic Union Army veteran, leaves his young wife and son to visit the World's Columbian Exposition, which has attracted America's greatest artists and thinkers as well as its drifters and schemers. Nick, a fast-talking con man, takes Moon to Pullman Town, a model city south of Chicago that is the site of the complex labor strike of 1894. Moon comes to see that the bright future the fair promised is compromised by greed. Unable to recapture his early vision of America, he takes his own life, and in so doing generates a surprising love story between a common young woman and a corrupt policeman as well as a major upheaval in the life of his neglected son.
Kaleidoscopic and fast-paced, Moon's Crossing draws on such sources as the traditional tall tale to present a unique narrative style. Moon's adventures are completely American, and the legacy he leaves is, ironically, more significant than his failed life would have foretold.

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More of the White City but different.......2007-03-08

I read this after Eric Larson's The Devil in the White City and Alec Michod's The White City. I still needed more of the white city. I liked this novel but I wasn't always certain about what the author was trying to convey. I was a bit confused by the relationship between the police officer investigating Moon's death and the young woman referred to as Moon's 'widow'. I thought that the book jacket said there was an unexpected romance between the two but it didn't read like romance to me. I liked the way Moon and the woman were connected. I really like the way Croft writes about Nick, I thought she did a great job depicting him. I thought it was good but not fantastic and after this one I finally had my fill of the white city.

Lyrical but Insubstantial.......2004-03-26

It's odd to see "Moon's Crossing" compared with "The Devil in the White City." While the former is a dreamy, drifty meditation on the intertwined lives of several fictional characters at various time periods, the latter is written in a much more straightforward style and based on actual events and people. They share a setting, the "White City" of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, and they roughly share some themes, perhaps, but they are very different styles.

I found "Moon's Crossing" beautiful and poetic, but ultimately unsatisfying. The book constantly switches between characters, and while the transitions were well done, some of the characters weren't that interesting. I found myself wishing that we could just stay with Moon. But Moon's own lack of direction made his character hard to enjoy. If Croft could wrap her lyrical prose around some more substantial characters, I'd love to read her next novel.

Confusing!!!.......2004-03-02

This book was really confusing. I had to read this book twice in order for me to understand what was going on. There is about five main characters in this book. This book goes back and forth between the past and the future. I recommend Devil in the White City instead.

Poetic, flowing prose.......2003-10-03

This book was a wonderful surprise. This historical fiction takes us from the nineteenth century where the affluent were cultuted and in quiet control to the roaring, fast advancing industrial modern age.

Jim Moon, a gentle, simple man reads about the White City in Chicago and is so drawn to it that he leaves his wife and son to travel there. At first the fair is everything he has imagined, a feast for the senses and beauty everywhere. Moon meets "Nick" who continually leads him into failed pursuits. As the fair ends, Moon has trouble adjusting to the reality of life. He must face a dirty, unreceptive city caught in the mires of a depression. This book leaves the reader with lots to think about, not the least of which is the identity of "Nick" who is a "devilish" and persistent partner to Moon.

I would definitely recommend this book, particularly to people who have enjoyed The Devil in the White city. This is the story of the kinds of people who worked at the fair and came to the fair to see the dream city and became lost in its wonder.

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simply beautiful
Moon Crossing
Poems certainly worthy of highest praise...
An extraordinarily complex and daring book of elegies

Moon Crossing Bridge
Tess Gallagher
Manufacturer: Graywolf Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1555971563

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Tess Gallagher's poems in this collection chart the painful road of mourning, memory, and change following the death of her beloved husband, fiction writer Raymond Carver. From feelings of sharing death to memories of valentines they gave each other, and then in an upward arch through Zen imagery of cherry blossoms and curved bridges, Gallagher's poems come to no easy rest on the banks of a new life and new loves. But for all those who have experienced tragedy, the poems relate a common assurance that a crossing into survival can be reached.

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Tess Gallagher, one of America's most accomplished poets, presents her sixth book, a descent into the world of the dead, a remembrance of her recently deceased beloved, whose presence and absence are recalled in sombre lyrical rhythms and with a extraordinary range of expressions of love and sadness.

Devoid of self-pity or illusion, yet full of dream and vision and wisdom, these beautifully intense and powerful poems bestow the gift of words to the widow's silence, to the silence of all who are muted by grief and loss. With this unusual volume, arranged in six carefully paced movements to suggest the journey from death to recovery, Gallagher charges language with its utmost responsibilities: here poetry aspires deeply and urgently beyond its cultural marginality to embrace the paradox of sharing unshareable pain and to assume again an Orphic voice and a communal necessity.

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simply beautiful.......2004-02-20

WOW!!!!! what imagery, heart and beauty..Tess Gallagher's tribute
book to her deceased husband Raymond Carver,is the words of a grieving angel.."Deaf Poem" is my favorite.moon over bridge will
go down in history as one of the great book of poems dealing with
love,lost and renewal again..and i couldnt help thinking after reading it,how truly blessed Mr Carver was to have a love like
Tess in his life..and every man would be blessed to have a lady
love them just a tenth as much as she did..and does..pick up
this book!!!!!you wont regret it..

Moon Crossing.......2001-06-18

This is a great book of poems written near the time of her husband's death. I read the review of this book and purchased it for a friend whose husband had died. Now, 5 years later, she still tells me how much she loved this book and how much it meant to her. This is a great book. It is particularly wonderful for someone who has lost their husband.

Poems certainly worthy of highest praise..........2000-01-12

The passion and imagery contained in this book of highly personal poems astounds! I hope Ms. Gallagher's book will gain the recognition it deserves. To allow us to come so close to the poet seems to be a rarity in much of today's poetry. This incredible sharing will grab you and not let go. Our thanks to Ms. Gallagher . . .

An extraordinarily complex and daring book of elegies.......1999-07-09

Gallagher, whose decade-long relationship with the great short story writer Raymond Carver ended with Carver's early death to cancer in 1987, has written a masterpiece. Largely underrecognized, Moon Crossing Bridge has yet to receive its full due as one of the most deeply thoughtful and passionate poetic works on the subject of loss to emerge in recent memory. Gallagher has allowed the language that rose from her grief to carry her into the mystery that constitutes the borderland between the dead and those left behind. Her words sway like the tough threads of a hammock strung between the two worlds, holding us aloft as we allow ourselves to risk belief in paradoxical truths: that in the poetic universe to which Gallagher holds fast, a loved one can be truly with us and truly not with us at once, and loss and horror and delight can coexist in a strange harmony. In Gallagher's extraordinary book, the dark basin of terrible loss is not only inhabited, it is rich in hues and textures and possibilities. Using images culled as much from her travels around the world with Carver as from her years spent both with and without him in the Pacific Northwest, with this volume Gallagher has given a rare gift to those of us with loss in our backgrounds. She has journeyed as a shaman does, to map that enduring human trek from overwhelming pathos to multidimensional, even joyful, insight -- with unfailing courage and honesty. One day Gallagher will be seen for the unparalleled talent she is. For now, we who read and do the work to understand her words can be among a privaleged group of fierce and well-rewarded fans.

Walk when the Moon is full (The Crossing Press series of children's stories)

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Should be required reading for children
Excellent walk through nature for children and parents

Walk when the Moon is full (The Crossing Press series of children's stories)
Frances Hamerstrom
Manufacturer: Crossing Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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Should be required reading for children.......1998-09-04

This book describes the author's nighttime walks with her children during each of a year's thirteen full moons. Through these chapters the reader experiences the thrill and awe of moonlit discoveries. Reading this book to children is a wonderful way to introduce them to nature. Most children and parents who read this book will want to follow its example, and both will benefit if they do. It would be an excellent resource for elementary school teachers. Very well written and illustrated.

Excellent walk through nature for children and parents.......1997-08-29

Sharing the joys of nature between parents and children is a rare topic. This book is a simple, yet joyful, description of a parent's decision that bedtime doesn't always take precedence over discovering nature.

My mother read this to me while we were living on a farm in southwestern Wisconsin, where this book is set, which made the stories even more important to me.

A wonderful bedtime story for any child longing to see the natural world at night.

Crossing the Moon: A Journey Through Infertility

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a great read
a great read
Is your baby clock ticking?

Crossing the Moon: A Journey Through Infertility
Paulette Bates Alden
Manufacturer: Ruminator Books
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Binding: Hardcover

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a great read.......1999-04-24

I picked this book up because of the topic but it was so much more than an infertility story:it was a great chronicle of one womans growing up.When I was done I felt I had made a new friend and was sad to put the book down.

a great read.......1999-04-24

Is your baby clock ticking?.......1999-02-19

Or about to run out of time all together? Then this book is for you...or anyone else who loves suberb memoir writing. We need to keep hearing from Bates Alden on a regular basis. She has important things to tell us.

Tess Gallagher Reads: Prose and Poetry from The Lover of Horses, Moon Crossing Bridge, Portable Kisses

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Tess Gallagher Reads: Prose and Poetry from The Lover of Horses, Moon Crossing Bridge, Portable Kisses
Tess Gallagher
Manufacturer: audible.com
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Audio Download
ASIN: B0000544MA

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Moon Crossing Bridge
Tess GALLAGHER
Manufacturer: Graywolf
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000ILQ5OQ

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A good read
Nice change of pace
Too self-indulgent
Thought-provoking and inspiring
This is a wonderful book on many levels.

Crossing the Moon: A Memoir
Paulette Bates Alden
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0140272097

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Paulette Bates Alden grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, where--for the female of the species--virginity, decorum, and becoming a mother were prized above all else. Bates Alden chose a different route, one that included premarital sex with a campus politico, a Volkswagen camper, and a fiction seminar with Tillie Olsen, who taught her to "stay the course. Sit at your desk, and write." Bates Alden became a writer and eventually married, but "from the very start, I had seen writing and motherhood as mutually exclusive." It wasn't until she turned 39 that the alarm on her biological clock went off. Crossing the Moon is the story of Bates Alden's uncertainty about having children, her struggle with infertility once she decided she wanted them desperately, and how her commitment to a life of writing weaves through it all. "Did I really want to be a mother," Bates Alden asks herself, "or did I really just want to conform to society's expectations for me?" This is a compelling tale about how each choice we make (or that is made for us) necessarily involves a sacrifice as well. "There were so many ways to be a woman, wife, mother, writer," says Bates Alden. "I had had to relinquish some things in order to get others." Bates Alden does come out the other side of these tribulations. We can only hope that we all arrive, like she has, at "a place where what is best is simply what is." --Jane Steinberg

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At the age of 39, Paulette Bates Alden realized that she had become the person she always wanted to be--a woman writing at her desk. On the way to achieving her most important goal, she had always considered motherhood but as she neared the end of her fertile years, with a wonderful husband and aging, obstinate, yet irreplaceable parents, Alden was struck by all she would be giving up by not having a child. Suddenly, she found herself faced with the possibility that she had waited too long. In this intimate and searching memoir, Alden looks back on her southern upbringing and her conscious rejection of what seemed in the sixties to be antiquated roles--those of wife and mother. Finally, she and her husband embark on a long and difficult course of infertility treatment. Crossing the Moon is a wry, poignant, and beautifully wise story of the choices that all women make--and learn to live with.

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A good read.......2000-05-01

I picked up this book in the bookstore even though I have no problems with infertility. I'd read her collection of stories (which is really great) so it caught my eye. By the end of page one, I could not put it down! This is just a plain old GOOD READ. Alden discusses issues relevant to most people -- infertile or not, considering parenthood or not. In some ways, I am sorry that the book has the subtitle that it does, because (though it centers on Alden's struggles with infertility) it really reads like a great memoir. Alden is clearly a gifted writer. She has this way of drawing you in and not letting you go until the last word.

Nice change of pace.......1999-05-11

What I liked about this book is that the author didn't try to provide an answer, just discussed very openly and honestly her own experiences with infertility and deciding whether to pursue/continue fertility treatment. I liked the fact that she was honest about her ambiguity about having children in the first place. I think it is common for women these days to question whether they need to have a child to be fulfilled and whether it is worth the invasiveness and disruption to a normal life that extensive fertility treatment requires. It was therapeutic for me to read about her experiences and her arrival at a decision. It didn't help me make a decision, but it did help me think through some of the issues. If you have not wrested with any of these issues, the book may not be as meaningful to you. Unfortunately, I think infertility is something you have to experience to truly understand.

Too self-indulgent.......1999-04-17

I read this book while couch-bound, nursing my newborn and watching my 2 1/2 year old destruct the house, so perhaps I was not Ms. Alden's most patient reader. My biggest problem was that I was never actually convinced that the author really wanted a child. She spent so much of the book rehashing her strong, independent woman, no-time-for-children existence in a self-congratulatory manner that I just couldn't believe that her desire to have a child was anything more than a manifestation of her perfectionist drive to "do it all." I really tired of her constant wavering, "Maybe I do, maybe I don't," which in the end just struck me as extremely self-indulgent. I did find the last part of the book on actual infertility treatments and what woman go through psychologically very interesting (that the treatments themselves can become a kind of addiction was fascinating and heartbreaking), but I felt she took much too long to get there. I am glad that Ms. Alden came to peace with herself over this difficult choice, but as woman who writes and who has made the opposite choice earlier in her life, CROSSING THE MOON struck me as a lot of rationalizing.

Thought-provoking and inspiring.......1998-09-14

Being a writer myself of child-bearing age, I was drawn to Alden's book and could not put it down until I had read every single word. She is refreshingly frank and honest about her experiences of infertility and finding her true writer's voice, and should be applauded for making the right decision for her life. I sometimes struggle with the same issues - do I want children? How would they fit into my life as a writer? WOULD they fit in and is it fair to try? Some people believe you can have it all; I'm not one of them. Alden's book is as much about making choices as it is about infertility, and every woman faces these choices at some point in her life. Alden's tale of finding her own way is inspiring and comforting, and I look forward to the next book from this gifted author.

This is a wonderful book on many levels........1998-09-12

I read this book shortly after confronting my own infertility. What a wonderful storyteller! I found myself in tears on one page and laughing on the next. I highly recommend it to anyone on their own journey through infertility or anyone who likes a well-told tale.

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Moon Sea Crossing (First Lines)
Lynn Harrigan
Manufacturer: Black Moss Press
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Binding: Paperback

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A work of documentary poetry, Moon Sea Crossing traces one woman's journey through mental illness during the mid-nineteenth century.

Lynn Harrigan was intrigued when, upon researching the story of one Ann Hanan, she learned that the County Gaol functioned not only as a prison but also as a house of refuge. Ann Hanan's story stood out from the others because the cause of her illness was not clear. Nor were the reasons for her continued detention. The only "complaint" given was by her husband, that being that she was "filthy in her habits."

What Harrigan has done in this collection is bring Ann Hanan's story to life in a poignant and moving manner. The work likely will be compared to Margaret Atwood's Susanna Moodie poems.

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Crossing the Moon
Paulette Bates Alden
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OJ8N4M

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