An Ice Cold Grave (Harper Connelly Mysteries, Book 3)

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Hired to find a boy gene missing in Doraville, North Carolina, Harper Connelly and her brother Tolliver head there-only to discover that the boy was only one of several who had disappeared over the previous five years. All of them teenagers. All unlikely runaways.

All calling for Harper.

Harper soon finds them-eight victims, buried in the half-frozen ground, all come to an unspeakable end. Afterwards, what she most wants to do is collect her fee and get out of town ahead of the media storm that's soon to descend. But when she's attacked and prevented from leaving, she reluctantly becomes a part of the investigation as she learns more than she cares to about the dark mysteries and long-hidden secrets of Doraville-knowledge that makes her the next person likely to rest in an ice-cold grave.

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Great Book
Do me Peter, please.
INCREDIBLY DISAPPOINTING. Don't bother.
Couldn't put it down
Decent

Cold As Ice
Anne Stuart
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The job was supposed to be dead easy--hand-deliver some legal papers to billionaire philanthropist Harry Van Dorn's extravagant yacht, get his signature and be done. But Manhattan lawyer Genevieve Spenser soon realizes she's in the wrong place at the wrong time, and that the publicly benevolent playboy has a sick, vicious side. As he tries to make her his plaything for the evening, eager to use and abuse her until he discards her with the rest of his victims, Genevieve must keep her wits if she intends to survive the night.

But there's someone else on the ship who knows the true depths of Van Dorn's evil. Peter Jensen is far more than the unassuming personal assistant he pretends to be--he's a secret operative who will stop at nothing to ensure Harry's deadly Rule of Seven terror campaign dies with him. But Genevieve's presence has thrown a wrench into his plans, and now he must decide whether to risk his mission to keep her alive, or allow her to become collateral damage….

Customer Reviews:

Great Book.......2007-08-09

Anne Stuart is amazing. I believe this is the second of the Ice series and I literally could not put it down until I was done. Great supsense, plot twists and of course, romance!

Do me Peter, please........2007-07-13

The best romance I have read in a long, long time.

And the reason is. Peter Madsen. Just thinking his name sends warm shivers running up my spine.

The persona of Peter completely pervades this novel. When the story isn't being told from his pov he still dominates totally the thoughts of the heroine. I can't blame her. Peter is divine. Not least because, despite his self-assurance, the mission crumbles around him and the reader gets a real feeling of doomed love. Although what he sees in the blonde, cultured, successful Genevieve Spencer (who at 30 years of age could only be described as 'young' by a truely ancient person) is anyone's guess.

The thriller part of the novel is pretty pathetic though. The evil chief baddie, van Dorn is an incompetent nit-wit. But I don't care. It just gives more opportunity for the main couple to spend lots of time on verbally sounding each other out.

It's very similar to Diamond Bay by Linda Howard, although the morals which characterize Cold As Ice are a lot more dubious.

Gross scenes; absolutely none.

Best scenes; when Genevieve thinks she's in 'some third-world bog' and it turns out she's in a millionaires hideaway in California; when the ugly orphans backchat van Dorn.

But best of all; some lovely, lovely prose; mainly focused on a man who is in the process of falling deeply in love and he doesn't understand the why's or the wherefore's of it all.

Plus; strictly speaking, only two consumation scenes...all the rest is foreplay.

Basically. This is the story of a captive who gets her captor to fall in love with her. And then she in turn falls in love with him for no other reason than that he makes her happy. (Something that she hasn't been for a long time.) So, lots of emotional risk taking...just my kind of story. He in turn rescues her when he doesn't have to. And she shows her gratitude by accidentally geting him shot and almost killed...twice. Poor Peter. Not that he doesn't thoroughly deserve all the bad things that happen to him. It was a total pleasure to read how Genevieve inexorably reels him in despite all his tough talk.

I had absolutely no trouble believing in their HEA.

Fantastic.

INCREDIBLY DISAPPOINTING. Don't bother........2007-06-08

I'm a huge Anne Stuart fan. I first discovered her with Black Ice and loved it. I had to get all the rest of her books.

I just finished Cold as Ice last night and I can't even begin to describe how disappointed and cheated I feel.

The flow of the book is stilted. It felt as if the story line was a jigsaw puzzle but all the pieces weren't put in order. I felt like I was missing bits of the story from one scene to the next. It was almost as if certain paragraphs were shoved in there as a page/word count filler.

There are only so many twists and turns that an author can pull off and again, it seemed like Stuart ran out of things to say because the action sequence in the middle of the book was FULLY repeated in another location at the end of the book. Half way through the book, I began skimming the tangents that I really didn't care about.

I never bonded with her characters. The same solitary character trait of the main two characters was beaten like a dead horse and I had to roll my eyes several times to get through it. I kept on hoping it would get better and that's the only reason I finished it. If it had been any other author, I would have stopped reading it 2/3 of the way in.

There wasn't a logic to the story line either. The plot felt rushed and I got the impression that the book wasn't edited fully before hitting the press. The nitty-gritty details given don't add up.

You can save yourself the hours you would lose. It's just not worth it. I'll read her other books as they come out but this is definitely one to throw away.

Couldn't put it down.......2007-04-27

Cold as Ice is a winner. Anne Stuart has the best alpha heroes. They are dark, dangerous and sometimes not all that likeable but they all redeem themselves by the end of the story. Peter Jensen is no exception. He is working undercover for a super secret organization, planning the downfall of American millionaire, Harry Van Dorn, when his mission goes awry thanks to Genevieve Spencer.

Genevieve is a burned out lawyer just looking to drop off legal papers at Van Dorn's yacht in the Caribbean when she is charmed by Van Dorn into staying aboard overnight. Unfortunately, she comes the day Peter intends to set his plan in motion. She is aboard when the yacht is hijacked, then held prisoner on an island with Peter and his cohorts.

The plotting is good but where Anne Stuart excels is sexual chemistry between her characters and these two are explosive. Peter truly does not want to care about Genevieve. He is on a mission and his actions are right in line with a cold uncaring agent, to a point. He almost seems emotionless, working on auto pilot except that Stuart lets us into his imaginings and we see a man who admires then loves Genevieve. As for Genevieve, she is spunky and likeable but this book revolved around Peter Jensen. He overshadows the book and that's perfectly fine. He is a worthy hero and more complex than most other lead characters in romance novels. If this novel is any indication of the Ice series. I can hardly wait to read Anne Stuart's next novel.

Decent.......2007-04-24

The main character was annoying after a while, but the book was fairly interesting. A quick read.

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Contemplative and erratic
this is a wonderful book
another great Ehrich book
The Future of Ice
A very refreshing read.

The Future of Ice: A Journey into Cold
Gretel Ehrlich
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ASIN: 037542251X
Release Date: 2004-11-09

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This book is written out of Gretel Ehrlich’s love for winter—for remote and cold places, and the ways in which winter frees our imagination and invigorates our feet, mind, and soul—and out of the fear that our “democracy of gratification” has irreparably altered the climate. In The Future of Ice, Ehrlich travels to extreme points—from Tierra del Fuego in the south to Spitsbergen, east of Greenland, at the very top of the world—in her quest to understand the complex, primal nature of cold.

Over the course of a year, Ehrlich and her cold-loving canine companion experience firsthand the myriad expressions of cold, and she gives us marvelous histories of wind, water, snow, and ice, of ocean currents and weather cycles. Ehrlich explores how our very awareness, our consciousness, is animated and enlivened by the archaic rhythms and erupting oscillations of weather. As she writes, “Weather streamed into my nose, mouth, eyes, and ears and circulated inside my brain. . . . A gust can shove one impulse into another; a blizzard erases a line of action; a sandstorm permeates inspiration; rain is a form of sleep. Lightning makes scratch marks on brains; hail gouges out a nesting place, melts, and waters the seed of an idea that can germinate into idiocy, a joke, or genius.” We share Ehrlich’s experience of the thrills of cold and also her questions: What will happen to us if we are “deseasoned”? If winter ends, will we survive?

Customer Reviews:

Contemplative and erratic.......2007-06-05

I sought this book because I myself play in winter and around ice and love the cold as it defines seasons. I am an environmental advocate in my job and hobbies. I also am an admirer of the destinations and distances Ehrlich seems willing to travel.

While I appreciate the imagery and Ehrlich's personalized - yet detached - account of her experiences throughout this book, I didn't find myself empathizing with most of her ideas and principles. The strong impression this book left on me was of a bag of personal troubles couched as a concern for climate change. I don't know if she was numbed by her feeling of helplessness, against what she perceived in the world of ice (or if she was just cold) but her stream-of-consciousness verse-prose cascade toward no solutions was alienating and disheartening. I didn't want a feel good story from this book, but I think I had hoped for a sense of stepping toward reconciliation and trouble-shooting, however philosophical.

this is a wonderful book.......2006-12-14

This is a tightly wrought and beautiful work or life and art, poetical, arresting, trasportive. As a westerner, and lover of cold it really spoke to me. The brittle cold of the author's loneliness seduces your own heart to face itself. It is a beautiful book, but not an easy one. While the book is supposedly about global warming, it is truly about much much more. How anyone could give it a low rating due in part to a disagreement about climate prediction is beyond me. I highly recommend this book.

another great Ehrich book.......2006-06-09

Excellent book about cold places, global warming, life and solitude.
another great book for Gretel.
this is another keeper for my library.
I loved it.

The Future of Ice.......2006-04-26

A travel memoir, meditation on winter and nature, and jeremiad upon the imminent destruction of everything.

I found this book almost unreadable. I didn't care for the writing style, which I found overwrought (speculating about the emotions of glaciers, pushing every image past its logical limit), but the scientific inaccuracies were what really troubled me. This kind of hysterical account encourages people to disrespect the environmental movement, so I'm afraid Ehrlich may have done more harm than good. As a conservationist who does believe global warming is a problem that we need to address, I'm not at all convinced that all the ice will be gone in fifty years and "a million" species will consequently be extinct, or that all the fresh water will be gone (global warming seems to be bringing wetter weather to some parts of the world). Broad statements like that combined with a dearth of solid information on either the global warming issue or the ecosystems through which Ehrlich travels cause the book to lose credibility.

Writers like Peter Matthiessen and Craig Childs successfully combine poetic language with scientifically valid observation and powerful arguments for conservation. This book, for me, doesn't succeed.

A very refreshing read........2006-03-21

I recently completed reading this book while travelling in Iceland and the Faroes last week. And I picked up this book at a bookstore in Reykjavik. Clearly Gretel is a strongly worded and passionate writer. But while she was able to connect with me while talking about her hikes (and her dog, Sammy; I lost my own doggie about a month ago), she quite often seems to go on a rant. Sometimes I just skimmed over words without attempting to grasp what she was saying. She does not describe any flora and fauna in detail but I don't think that was the intention of this book (read Barry Lopez's "Arctic Dreams" for that). But all that sounds like nitpicking. It is not often you come across a book by someone who obviously has travelled so extensively or loves winter so much. Make this your next read while travelling across the northern Atlantic next time.

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good but not great read
Excellent and highly entertaining hard science fiction novel
A Fine End -- or Entrance -- to This Series
Buy this book! It's the best of the hard SF
i love you uncle

Dark as Day (Cold As Ice)
Charles Sheffield
Manufacturer: Tor Science Fiction
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The Great War is over and humans have spread across the solar system, but mathematician Alex Ligon's complex computer model has just predicted that humanity is inexplicably doomed within a century. At the same time, scientist Milly Wu has identified what appears to be an extraterrestrial signal, and the idiosyncratic genius Bat searches for weapons from the Great War to add to his collection, finding much more than he bargained for. Their stories and others are intertwined in this tightly plotted and thoroughly engaging follow-up to Sheffield's Cold as Ice.

Nebula Award winner Sheffield distinguishes himself as a writer of intelligence, humor, and a pleasing balance of hard science and interesting, engaging characters. Fans will be particularly delighted to renew their acquaintance with Bat, but readers new to Sheffield's work should take the plunge enthusiastically--this novel easily and gracefully stands alone as a story of people, science, and the puzzles that both can produce. --Roz Genessee

Book Description

The Solar System is finally recovering from the Great War - a war that devastated the planets and nearly wiped out the human race - and the population of the outer moons, orbiting Jupiter and Saturn, is growing. On one of those moons, Alex Ligon, scion of a great interplanetary trading family has developed a wonderfully accurate new population model, and cannot wait until the newly reconstituted "Seine," the interlinked network of computers that spans the planets and moons and asteroids, comes back on line. But when it does, and he extends his perfect model a century into the future, it predicts the complete destruction of the human race.On another moon, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence goes on, undaunted by generations of failure. And to her amazement, Millie Wu, a young genius newly recruited to the project, has found a signal . . . a signal that is coming from outside the solar system.And in his new retreat on a minor moon of Saturn, the cranky genius Rustam Battacharyia is still collecting weapons from the Great War. He thinks he may have stumbled on an unexpected new one....but he'll need to disarm it before it destroys the Sun.

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good but not great read.......2006-01-01

Fairly decent adventure about the SETI effort continuing into the late 21st century. Gets better as it goes along.

Excellent and highly entertaining hard science fiction novel .......2005-09-06

_Dark As Day_ by Charles Sheffield is the third and final volume of his (I believe) unnamed trilogy that began with _Cold As Ice_ and continued with _The Ganymede Club_. An excellent end to a very enjoyable series, the trilogy is only rather loosely connected, united mainly in the setting, which in a manner similar to a series of novels by Ben Bova - in the setting that includes the novels _Mars_, _Saturn_, _Venus_, and _Jupiter_ among others- is set in a future in which humanity is spread throughout the solar system but has not yet traveled beyond it, though humanity is more entrenched and numerous among the various bodies in our solar system than in Bova's series, with millions of humans living on Mars, Ganymede, and Callisto as well as scattered throughout the asteroid belt (a.k.a. the Belt) and in various satellites of Saturn.

Aside from the fact that each later novel takes places further along the history of that universe than the novel that proceeded it, there is one common character, a major one, in these books, an individual by the name of Rustum Battachariya (also known simply as Bat), one of the most colorful, interesting, and distinct characters I have ever read in any science fiction novel. He is a reclusive individual, one mainly interested in profoundly difficult mathematical problems he solved for fun as part of a organization called the Puzzle Network and in collecting relics of the Great War, a massive conflict about thirty years ago that was system wide, fought on Earth, Mars, and the Belt and one that killed billions.

As in the previous two novels, despite his dislike for publicity (except within the confines of the Puzzle Network) and for spending any quality, face-to-face time with any human being in the flesh, Bat was an integral character in solving the main problem in the book. In this case the problem is a multipart one, one that ended up somehow involving such diverse threads as the opening up of a very powerful system-wide internet of sorts called the Seine, the bizarre results from a highly sophisticated predictive model designed by one Alex Ligon, one that showed humanity going extinct within a century, the Bat's efforts to track down a major weapons designer that went missing during the Great War, the weird mental abilities of a boy from Earth, Sebastian Birch, who had bizarre and apparently non-reactive microscopic objects in his body and had the almost idiot savant talent of predicting weather patterns on distant planets with little data, intrigue within Alex's family, the Ligon family, in trying to gain a lease on a small moon named Pandora (one leased by the very reclusive Bat), and the apparent discovery of extraterrestrial signals by Milly Wu, working at one of two competing SETI facilities near Jupiter. There is a lot going on but the plots do tie together very well in the end and make for a very compelling book. Sheffield did a fantastic job with this novel, the characters are extremely well drawn and very distinct, the science in this science fiction seemed top notch, and it is just a great story. I think that definitely it is the best of the three novels and one that could very easily be read as a stand-alone book.

A Fine End -- or Entrance -- to This Series.......2003-10-02

Those returning to the universe of Sheffield's _Cold As Ice_ and _The Ganymede Club_ will be pleased to find their old friend Bat here. The reclusive, snoopy genius has exiled himself to a moon of Saturn. Unfortunately, his home on Pandora figures in the plans of the ruthless and pushy Ligon family who want to reverse their recent slide from third to tenth in the rankings of richest companies in the solar system.

Reluctantly involved in their plot is Alex Ligon, sort of the black sheep of the family. When not being bullied by his family into running errands -- or auditioning for arranged marriages -- he works for the government rather than Ligon Industries. He's proud of a vast, sophisticated computer model of the entirety of human civilization in the solar system -- until it shows mankind going extinct in less than a century. Bad modelling or a ominous and valid warning?

Meanwhile, young Millie Wu has signed on to work for one half of the Beston brothers -- aka the Bastard and the Ogre, SETI researchers whose obsession about finding alien signals is matched only by their obsession with besting each other. Wu can't quite believe her luck when she seems to have detected a genuine signal.

On Earth, Janeed Jannex and her childhood friend Sebastian Birch decide to emigrate to space, but their recruiters prove to surprisingly be interested in Birch's almost idiot savant fascination with, of all things, clouds.

Those familiar with Sheffield's previous work will expect these plotlines to converge, and, as with _Cold As Ice_, the surprises are less in the sometimes predictable plot twists than the why of events or their scientific explanation. Those who found the ideas of that novel interesting will also appreciate this one. Sheffield gives us a system wide internet, the Seine, that communicates instantaneously via quantum entanglement. There is the mining of methane deposits on the floors of Earth's oceans, and a fairly detailed explanation of how an alien radio signal would be analysed and decoded. Even if Sheffield engages in a bit of handwaving with his explanations of Alex Ligon's computer model, it is still interesting.

Readers new to this series should have no trouble jumping right in with this book, and those who have read the other two novels will find little amplifications of previous plots points -- including Bat's growing collection of weapons from the Great War.

Buy this book! It's the best of the hard SF.......2003-09-06

But don't read it until you've also gotten Cold as Ice, and read it. The two are among the very best hard SF books anyone has written. As a bonus, they both also have a mystery for the main characters to solve.

I already miss Charles Sheffield, just because the prospects of more novels featuring the unique "Bat" are remote. Sheffield wrote the very hardest SF (as appropriate for a Ph.D. in physics), but he usually managed to tell a good story as well - something that most of the other physicists who have written SF haven't managed to do. I wish he could have lived and written for another 20 years.

I wish to defend the instantaneous communication system a previous reviewer has maligned. Sheffield quite explicitly states that it works because of quantum entanglement, a perfectly respectable theory which was discussed in Scientific American's special edition last year on cosmology and cosmogony.

If you want to find some good reading, and are willing to accept his (very) rare failures, pick up some of his older novels, many of which were published in Analog before coming into the bookstores.

i love you uncle.......2003-07-01

I think his book Dark as day is amazing. Chareles was my uncle. If you did or did not know this he passed away November 2,2002 of a brain tumer. He was a talented writer and his books are very interesting but im just 13 so go ahead and read.

Cold As Ice (Nancy Drew Files 54): Cold As Ice (Nancy Drew Files)

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Ned and Nancy get to solve another mystery
It's Good!!!
At Emerson college, not everyone is playing games.

Cold As Ice (Nancy Drew Files 54): Cold As Ice (Nancy Drew Files)
Carolyn Keene
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Nancy spends a winter weekend on campus -- and finds that crime is on the curriculum

Ned invites Nancy, Bess, and George to Emerson College's Winter Carnival for four days of nonstop skiing, skating, and sleigh riding. But a jewel heist on campus puts a big chill on the weekend, and the police believe they have their man cold. His name is Rob Harper, and he's one of Ned's best friends!

Convinced of Rob's innocence, Nancy undertakes an investigation of her own. But the action on ice proves more slippery than she expected. Someone at Emerson is out to teach Nancy a lesson and show her just how dangerous winter sports can be. When it comes to jewelry, some like it hot -- and the carnival of crime is heating up fast!

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Ned and Nancy get to solve another mystery.......1998-12-10

Ned invites Nancy down to the winter carnavl to have fun and Nancy has a little more than fun. She solves another mystery! Rob , Neds friend, gets acused of arson and grand theifed. And Nancy has to try and get Rob out of line and she gets in line. Want to know what happens to Nancy? Read this book it's great!

It's Good!!!.......1998-12-01

This was one of my favorites books in the Nancy Drew Files.I can not beleve the person who they were sharing a room with,stole the jewelry.It was right under there nose.It totally surprised me that she did it,but that was part of what made it so good.

At Emerson college, not everyone is playing games........1998-06-18

When Nancy, George and Bess join Ned in Emerson college for the Winter Carnival, they're all looking forward to a few relaxing, fun - filled days. But someone has got more sinister plans in mind. First the college museum is robbed, then the boat house is the victim of an arson attack. Nancy is asked to investigate when Rob Harper, Ned's friend, is accused of the robbery. Nancy has to find the arsonist, before he finds her.

A Cold Touch of Ice: A Mamur Zapt Mystery

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A COLD TOUCH OF ICE
strong early twentieth century Egyptian historical mystery

A Cold Touch of Ice: A Mamur Zapt Mystery
Michael Pearce
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Book Description

The world is changing aroung the Mamur Zapt, British Chief of Cairo's Secret Police. It's 1912 and there's a war on that no one's heard of. When an Italian man is murdered in the city's back streets, there is concern that this could be some kind of ethnic cleansing. "One of us" Morelli may have been, but was he "one of us" enough? And were the guns in his warehouse anything to do with it? Gareth Owen—the Mamur Zapt—has to find out fast.

And then, as external pressures crowd in, there are other difficult questions. What is Trudi von Ramsberg really doing in Cairo? Not to mention that other noted traveller, Gertrude Bell, or the irritating little archaeologist, T. E. Lawrence? And why has the post of Khedive's Librarian suddenly become so important?

Owen is just the man to solve these problems. He is less successful, though, in his relationship with Zeinab, especially now that she's approaching thirty.

As Cromer's Egypt gives way to Kitchener's Egypt, Morelli is not the only one who has problems over where his allegiance lies. Maybe the solution is for Owen to go to Zanzibar...

Customer Reviews:

A COLD TOUCH OF ICE.......2005-09-20

THIS IS A GREAT SERIES. A COLD TOUCH OF ICE IS THE 13th IN THE SERIES & THEY SHOULD BE READ FROM THE BEGINNING, STARTING WITH THE RETURN OF THE CARPET. I FIRST READ THE 3rd & 4th BOOKS IN THE EARLY 90s WHEN I FOUND THEM IN PAPERBACK. BUT AFTER THAT I COULD FIND NO MORE UNTIL A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO WHEN I FOUND THAT THERE WAS A WHOLE SERIES, PURCHASING MOST OF THEM FROM AMAZON. THERE IS A LOT OF HISTORY IN THESE BOOKS & GREAT ATMOSPHERE & A LOT OF RESEARCH HAS GONE INTO THESE BOOKS. I HIGHLY COMMEND THE AUTHOR & HIGHLY RECOMMEND THESE BOOKS. THERE IS ALSO SOME SUBTLE HUMOR & SOME POLITICS OF THOSE TIMES.

7 GREAT ATMOSPHERE

strong early twentieth century Egyptian historical mystery .......2004-08-03

In 1912, Italy invades Tripolitania. Turkey declares war on Italy since Tripolitania belongs to them. Most of Europe wants to remain out of the conflict hoping that it will remain somewhat localized. British leaders choose a neutral path, but not all of the empire agrees. Though a British Protectorate, Egypt remains part of the Ottoman Empire and sympathies lie strongly with the Turks.

In Cairo, someone strangled to death an Italian-Egyptian Sidi Morelli, a resident for forty years and whose warehouse contained weapons. Gareth Owen, the Mamur Zapt, investigates the homicide wondering if this is the beginning of an anti-Italian movement or was the murder tied to the guns? As he digs deeper and looks into several seemingly unrelated other incidents, Owen struggles with what he should do with his beloved Zeinab, who as she turns thirty wants a deeper commitment from him. As his own loyalties are questioned even by himself and Zeinab demands more of him, Owen wonders if it is time to relocate to perhaps Zanzibar.

As usual, Michael Pearce provides a deep and entertaining early twentieth century historical mystery that brings to life Egypt under British control. The story line works on three levels (historical, investigative, and personal) that cleverly intertwine into a cohesive terrific who-done-it. Gareth is a fantastic protagonist who symbolizes the pull in two directions. He is at his witty, somewhat bewildered best as he ponders to Zanzibar or not to Zanzibar that is the question.

Harriet Klausner

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Solid complex murder mystery

Witch Cradle
Kathleen Hills
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Book Description

January, 1951, while the country is in the grip of war in Korea, the threat of nuclear annihilation, and Senator Joe McCarthy, the residents of St. Adele, Michigan are more concerned with staying warm and shoveling snow, until a bizarre ice storm brings down a towering pine. Entangled in its roots is evidence that leads Constable John McIntire to the abandoned farmstead of a young couple who had supposedly left the community years before, part of an exodus of Finnish-Americans gone off to build a workers' Utopia in the Soviet republic of Karelia. McIntire's fears are realized when he discovers two bodies, buried sixteen years in an unused cistern.

In his zeal to uncover the truth, McIntire brings the scrutiny--and the suspicion--of a Red-hunting government agent upon his neighbors and himself. It is only the beginning of his mis-calculations. Each step in investigating the deaths seems only to bring more misery to the living. Old wounds are opened, old terrors rekindled, and old wrongs exposed. McIntire himself is not immune. He struggles to solve the two-decades old murders, while a part of the past he hoped to bury forever threatens to destroy his new life.

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Solid complex murder mystery.......2006-04-29

Author Kathleen Hills has a history with regions of the northern United States, and although the Upper Peninsula of Michigan is separate and distinct, from, say Montana or Northern Wisconsin, there are certainly similarities. In this third outing for the author's protagonist, the reluctant constable of St. Adele, John McIntire, comes across evidence that two former neighbors had not emigrated to the Soviet Union, as was supposed by pretty much everybody in the region.

In the early 1930's this country was in the grip of a serious depression and there was more than a little unrest. Some people organized a sort of mass emigration by mostly poor or disaffected people to a place in the Soviet Union called Karelia. Karelia was touted as the people's Eden, a place where everyone would be well-housed, properly fed and would find useful work, according to their needs. Karelia was advertised as sort of the penultimate socialist community. In reality, a lot of people who went, disappeared and were never heard from again. What was their fate in Stalinist Russia?

WITCH CRADLE, is set in the early fifties, a time when suspicion of that great evil, Communism, also known as the Soviet Union, was rampant in this country. It was the time of Roy Cohen and Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. It was a time of black listing and anxiety. And while the people of the Upper Peninsula were relatively isolated from most of the excesses of that time, there were those who would take advantage of the circumstances. Bringing those national concerns down to the individual and very personal concerns of the people of St. Adele is a feat worth reading about, especially in the careful and adept hands of author Kathleen Hills.

Many questions rise. What is the FBI doing hanging around this isolated area? What exactly was Constable McIntire doing during his time away from St. Adele, the time he refuses to talk about? What exactly did happen to the people who went to the Soviet Union? And if some of the former residents of the area never made it to Karelia, what happened to them and why? This is a moving, solid work about people we all can relate to, in one form or another.

Harvest of the Cold Months: The Social History of Ice and Ices

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Harvest of the Cold Months: The Social History of Ice and Ices
Elizabeth David
Manufacturer: Viking Adult
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A seminal food writer, Elizabeth David brought Mediterranean cuisine to English readers and became a national institution, her cookbooks beloved not only for their recipes but for their literary depth. In the 1970s David began researching ice-cream. It was an innocent enough idea, but she got side-tracked--the result was 20 years of research into the whole history of ice and ice-making, and this book, which she died before completing (it has been finished by Jill Norman). As revealed in extracts from the earliest writings on the subject, ice, before the days of refrigeration, was an item prized by the mightiest and warmest empires. Though not a cookbook, this encyclopedic treatise on ice won a 1995 Julia Child Cookbook Award for Literary Food Writing, and a Jane Grigson Award.

Fire from Ice: Searching for the Truth Behind the Cold Fusion Furor (Wiley Science Editions)

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Balanced treatment of a profound and overlooked discovery

Fire from Ice: Searching for the Truth Behind the Cold Fusion Furor (Wiley Science Editions)
Eugene J. Mallove
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Inc
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ASIN: 0471531391

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Offering the prospect of clean, safe, and unlimited energy, nuclear fusion has long been the shining hope for a world disastrously dependent on dwindling supplies of fossil fuels. Two generations of the brightest scientific minds and billions of dollars have been devoted to designing and building experimental reactors that mimic the unimaginably extreme temperatures and pressures needed to produce nuclear reactions akin to those that power the Sun and the stars.

Then, suddenly, in the spring of 1989, Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann, research chemists at the University of Utah, made an announcement that rocked the scientific world and made front-page news for months to follow. Their claim to have achieved nuclear fusion in a simple tabletop experiment and at room temperature defied sacrosanct conventional physical theories. And the scientific establishment would not take that challenge of cold fusion lying down. Within hours, even as the press was proclaiming a possible new era of unlimited clean energy, cries of disbelief and accusations of scientific misconduct and even fraud were heard from within professional circles.

Researchers in laboratories around the world mobilized in an unprecedented effort to explain Pons and Fleischmanns experiments. A mountain of confusing, seemingly contradictory results began to pile up. Soon, leading scientific journals were regularly publishing cold fusion obituaries, and bitter editorials questioning the methods and motives of the cold fusion pioneers. Cold fusion was dead. . . or was it? Almost unnoticed, a steadfast group of hundreds of optimistic researchers around the world continues to search for a solution to the tantalizing cold fusion enigma.

In Fire from Ice, astronautical engineer and well-known author, Eugene Mallove, sheds a new and very different light on the cold fusion confusion. Based on personal interviews with many of the people involved, as well as his firsthand experiences in laboratories and scientific conferences, he offers a unique insiders view of that divisive controversy, while at the same time clearly explaining the relevant science and technology. And Dr. Mallove convincingly argues that cold fusion may yet prove to be real.

A story of scientific ambition and professional rivalry, political intrigue and hard science, Fire from Ice is the fascinating account of one of the most intense and momentous scientific controversies of all time.

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This Book Will be a Collectors Item.......2004-11-08

Eugene Mallove tragically lost his life earlier this year in a simple act of barbarism. So odd that a man who devoted his life to one of the most neglected and abstract fields of science in the late 20th Century would die in such a senseless manner. Luckily, Gene's lifes work will not be a waste, as Cold Fusion is finally starting to achieve the recognition it rightly deserves. It will be pinoneers like Dr. Mallove who will be remembered for keeping the Cold Fusion flame alive during some of its darkest moments. Buy and read this book, it's sure to be a collectors item soon, as Cold Fusion will soon emerge as a mainstream field of science and Dr. Mallove will be exonerated for persuing such a taboo field of science.

A must read!.......2004-05-26

I am a Coast to Coast AM listener. I would like to have everyone read his book. It is remarkable. I think that the leaders of the world should all have a copy! I would also like to send my deepest prayers to the family of this beloved author, Eugene Mallove. He and his work will be greatly missed. Blessings to his family and friends.

Read this book!.......2000-04-02

I thought this was a great book. If you want an intriguing book about the controversial energy source of the future you must read this book. It is an excellent read!

An example of wishful ideation ?.......1999-09-24

As far as style of thinking is concerned, Dr. Mallove is far closer to, e.g., creationists than to, e.g., Carl Sagan. He has let his intense messianic desire that cold fusion be a reality completely cloud his scientific judgement. The loony, physics-ignorant hordes of cold-fusion advocates include such worthies as a fellow in Australia who has sold kits of magnets and a ball-bearing which he has claimed will roll around a closed track forever with no visible means of propulsion. Dr. Mallove does not refute such garbage. In this reviewer's opinion he is either delusional or simply a con man on a par with Erich von Daniken or Whitley Strieber.

Balanced treatment of a profound and overlooked discovery.......1998-11-04

Mallove has produced a fine documentary of the early days of the cold fusion controversy, which has developed into an underground science. Ignorance of this discovery will be viewed with the kind of curiosity that causes us to wonder why the discovery of the 'cat's wisker' transistor in the 20's did not lead to any kind of serious research effort for several decades in a world that desperately needs clean energy.

Cold Water Diving: A Guide to Ice Diving (Diversification Series)

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Cold Water Diving: A Guide to Ice Diving (Diversification Series)
John N. Heine
Manufacturer: Best Pub Co
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Binding: Paperback

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A beautifully illustrated, comprehensive guide on the planning, preparation, and training for cold water diving. More than 100 full-color photos illustrating in detail the techniques and procedures for safe and comfortable cold water diving. Special sections on safety tips, dry suits, and diving equipment, including items for thermal protection, cylinder valves, and regulators. The author, past president of the American Academy of Underwater Sciences, is an ice diver with more than 15 years of cold water diving experience.

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Very good info in this book.......2007-03-09

Bought this book as an additional source of info prior to doing my PADI Ice Diving Course. I've found instructors teach what they know which isn't always what is safest so I wanted to make sure when I made decisions they were informed ones. This book helped me ask some questions regarding my own safety I would never have thought about had I not read it. Anyone considering taking an Ice Diving course should buy this book and read it prior to taking the course. Remember singnals are different depending who your instructor is but as long as everyone is using the same ones it's OK. This book is definately worth the money.

Great Book!.......2004-01-26

I am taking the YMCA ice diving course now and although the YMCA has it's own text, I decided to read this book for some additional insight. I'm glad I did. This book is packed with color photos of ice diving activities and was very easy to read. This text made a great addition to my course's text. A MUST read.

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