Healthy House Building for the New Millennium

Book Description

With over 200 photos and illustrations, as well as a complete set of detailed construction drawings, Healthy House Building for the New Millennium shows you everything you need to know to build a healthy house. While your home probably won't look like the one featured in this book, the important how-to information necessary to build or remodel in a healthy manner can be applied to any house. This third edition has been expanded to contain an update at the end of each chapter with new building products, techniques, options, and web sites - and there's a brand new chapter about the author's own new healthy home.

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Fabulous book, lots of great information.......2000-09-21

Here is the description of the house that the John Bower build to help his wife, who has MCS, recover. It discusses things they considered and what they actually used in THEIR OWN HOUSE. It also gives contact information so you can buy the products yourself. It is written by one of the experts in the area of healthy house building.

I have used the book numerous times to help investigate safe building materials and methods for my own house. I too have a wife with MCS.

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so so...

Excellent resource

excellent book

Russian Prison Tattoos: Codes of Authority, Domination, and Struggle

A world rarely seen....

Russian Prison Tattoos: Codes of Authority, Domination, and Struggle
Alix Lambert
Manufacturer: Schiffer Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0764317644

Customer Reviews:

so so..........2007-04-10

This book was very interesting. But...simply put, not enough photos. Many of the photos included don't show any tattoos at all. Random elderly people and prisoners, jail cells, signs, etc. If you're wanting to understand the prison culture and politics, it would be wonderful!! If you're looking for an interesting photobook of people's tattoos, this is not the one to pick.

Excellent resource.......2007-01-03

For those passionate about Russian prison culture, this is the book for you. This book provides an excellent resource for the meaning behind Russian prison tattoos and it provides valuable information on contemporary Russian prisons...which don't seem to have changed much since the end of the Gulag system. The author attempts to show as many different tattoos as possible, but it does feel repetitive. What helps is the author providing information about Russian prison culture; this brings context and a story behind the tattoos.

excellent book.......2006-03-28

this is an excellent book about russian prison tattoos. it has a lot of clear pictures. it also has quite informative text from good research done by the author. i reccommend this book to anyone interested in tattooing in foreign cultures and countries.

Russian Prison Tattoos: Codes of Authority, Domination, and Struggle.......2006-03-17

The book is alright they break it down to politics, being a Russian who came here when I was ten, I realize that the American jails and federal prisons aren't so bad, except cook county jail and tent city in Arizona, lots of info, big photos, but to get the whole perspective, who the bitch is, and who swallows sperm , you would need to complement yourself with the second book called Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia. The books go together.

A world rarely seen.... .......2005-04-18

Fascinating anthropological, photo-journal examination of the symbolism and code representations of Russian prison tattoos. An explicit, brutal look at a world most Russians and indeed most Westerners will never see. For an American audience, the importance of tattoo symbolism may be somewhat lost. After all, we live in a world where over privileged frat boys and corporate conformists are now "inked" with designs once almost exclusively earned by members of our own working or "criminal" classes.

Overall a fascinating read, even if the brevity of the text leaves something to be desired.

Customer Reviews:

a great photographer's best.......2006-06-30

in terms of color street photography, this is about as good as it gets. along with people like robert walker, costa manos, and anthony hernandez, webb helped create a new genre, perceptive and intuitive like cartier-bresson with the eyes of a colorist. webb has a few great books, this is my favorite.

as publishing goes, i'd say this book is average, and an updated, expanded edition would be great.

Stunning and important.......2000-05-10

The images in this book provide a seldom-seen commentary on aspects of life within a state know primarily for its tourism industry. Here, Alex Webb pulls back the curtain to reveal the other worlds that co-exist with most of the images tha come to mind when we hear the word "Florida." These photographs wildly exceed one's expectations for just how perfect a seemingly random moment can be, and Webb manages to do it with an eye for the abstract, the absurd, and while providing social commentary, humor and beauty.

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Don't let the title or the cover fool you!

Make her a serial character, please!!!!!

Hoochie, Hoochie, Hoochie. Yo' Mama!

Great

A Straight Line

Hoochie Mama
Preston L. Allen
Manufacturer: Writers Club Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0595207863

Book Description

All that homicide detective M Gantry needs in order to solve the most gruesome murders in Miami history is the answer to a simple question. Who is the cigarette smoker? Who is the serial killer leaving the half-smoked Camels butts at the scene of each crime?

The problem is the vicious killer might be linked to her own murky past, and her future.

Customer Reviews:

Don't let the title or the cover fool you!.......2006-02-04

Great story = interesting plot twists + confused detective + bad guys + good guys who may be bad + sex + crazy mayor + another plot twist + did I say clever plot.

Make her a serial character, please!!!!!.......2005-07-09

I loved this book. Mr. Allen is a wonderful writer. My only complaint, and I told him so, was that I was left wishing for more development and background on M. I expressed to him my hope that perhaps she could be a serial character.

Growing up in Miami and traveling through the neighborhoods he portrayed in the book, I could literally picture the scenes unfolding in my mind.

I was fortunate to have Mr. Allen as my professor a few years back. His love of the written word is infectious, and he was a joy from whom to learn.

W. :)

Hoochie, Hoochie, Hoochie. Yo' Mama!.......2003-11-21

This one is as good as his other book Bounce, but in a different way. This one is a whole book. Complete. We see what the writer Preston Allen can do with 300 pages. He is spellbinding in his description of scenes. Murder is his passion, and the solving of it. I did not see the end coming. I see the writer of Bounce in this book, too, in subtle ways, my friend. The little bit of kinky sex in the video scene, hot, hot, hot, the deep, deep, deep lesbian scene that explains M Gantry's childhood and her true feelings, and Dake the pervert is dangerous, but sexy in a manly kind of way: he likes his women old fashioned, subservient, and tied up. Okay, that's kinda weird, my friend, but this is a good book. You will not figure out the end. Preston L. Allen is a very good writer.

Great.......2003-11-20

This story is . . . very different. I read it after reading his erotica in his novel BOUNCE and BROWN SUGAR. I thought it was going to be an erotic thriller . . . instead I got a mystery thriller like none I have ever read before. M Gantry is a great character, so strong, so beautiful, so deep. I love the erudite conversations that the psychopaths have with each other; it's like a scene out of Pulp Fiction.

A Straight Line.......2003-07-20

I am still trying to figure this book out. I tried to read it as a page turner, but was dismayed by how much nuance was escaping me. This book is not a genre filler to be read in airports or while waiting in a doctor's office. This book does not wow the reader with a clever plot twist, compelling hooks, sex scenes, references to popular culture, or contrivances of any sort. Allen takes no short cuts in writing this book. He does not trade style, substance, and mood for slick/comfy stereotypes to ease our reading. This book wows us with honest innovation on every line, a freshness that is both welcome and daunting. M Gantry is not a stereotype of anything you have read about, she the lesbian, not lesbian cop, with the horrid hair, wastrel sister, and linear brain. "The things are not coming together in a straight line," she repeats throughout the book. Is this a metaphor for her dubious sexuality? She wishes her life could come together in a straight line, but how can it with the dead mother, ineffectual father, lesbian dreams, villainous boyfriend, and sinister new partner who, she discovers, is the cop who had sexually assaulted her when she was a minor and he was working the beat in her neighborhood. M Gantry is deliciously complex, and so the case she attempts to solve is subordinate to the reader's need to solve her. We read this so-called thriller to unravel the mystery of our protagonist. We read this book, not as a pager-turner, but as a literature of revelation and reflection. This is a good read. We turn these pages slow.

Why Wear Those Hoochie Mama Dresses? What's Your Style-Royalty or Risque

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Great For Reading With Your Daughters Or Youth

Why Wear Those Hoochie Mama Dresses? What's Your Style-Royalty or Risque
Martha Cahoon
Manufacturer: Tate Publishing & Enterprises
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Book Description

Addresses the apparent lack of responsibility in which seductive clothing is worn in our modern day world. The author deals with "fashion flagrance" head-on, not in a "cram it down your throat" method, but with a whimsical sense of humor grounded in biblical truth.

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Great For Reading With Your Daughters Or Youth .......2007-03-10

The message of the book is so needed. I feel it's target age is late teen to early twenties and I've not found a book on this subject before that wasn't for young girls. If you are the mother of a teen or young lady I highly suggest reading this book together on clothing. You'll laugh a lot because Martha is funny, but you can also come together on the "clothing issue" and stop those arguments in the dressing rooms. Shopping might become fun again and modesty find it's way back to the women of our time. Would also be great in small group study.

Hoochie Mama (Mad Dog Rodriguez Trilogy)

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Erika Lopez Scores Again
Slap my meat and call me dinner
A knock down, drag out time, just what I needed!
COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN!--FOR TWO YEARS!

Hoochie Mama (Mad Dog Rodriguez Trilogy)
Erika Lopez
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0684869748

Book Description

In this knuckle-cracking finale to the Trilogy of Tomatoes, Erika Lopez refuses to wipe her nose, curtsey, and exit gracefully. Hoochie Mama: The Other White Meat is another eclectic novel that belongs somewhere between the coffee table and the bathroom, but this time we're a little older, yellowing like freezer-burned chicken, and dabbing on just a touch of rouge before hobbling down to the street corner to scream at the computer programmers who've skipped into San Francisco and peed all over the toilet seats out of excitement.

You see, fresh from prison, Tomato "Mad Dog" Rodriguez returns to find her once-bohemian Mission neighborhood overrun by Latte People trading stocks on cell phones while careening down sidewalks in their Ford Explorers. Rents have multiplied to the square root of horror, forcing the families, elderly artists, and hippies -- those who didn't already get run over on the sidewalks -- to flee in droves, leaving behind only those willing to serve noisy coffees and change the deadly Firestone tires.

"If we spill your non-fat decaf lattes on our skin, do we not burn?" In spite of its resentful minimum-wage tone, this book is not only for the person who feels herself to be part of the cleaning staff for this rip-roaring American party of overachievers with perfect credit ratings. For some in the middle of their own urban hell, this may be like having your head jammed in a toilet and flushed over and over again. But others, with medical coverage and a morbid curiosity about what it's like to be a renter pillaging the sofa for change as if it were a lucky fountain, will find sharing this glimpse of the underachieving class as fascinating as staring at roadkill, then sniffing it.

But whether you view Mrs. Lopez's latest literary caterwaul as high entertainment of the outrageous sort, or as part political polemic, part act of subversion, you are sure to be entertained. For her part, she sees it as a creepy warning for renters to beware. "Run and hide," she warns. Remember when the Martians landed and when it was almost too late, we found out that their supposedly philanthropic book, On Serving Man, was really a cookbook?

It's a fun romp through the seal-clubbing world of gentrification, with a girl who's run over a cat, kidnapped her lover, forged her roommate's checks, slept with married Canadians, ordered Columbia records under dead neighbors' names, tried on numerous occasions to murder Chihuahuas...and still is easily the nicest person in the whole story.

So y'all gather 'round the heating duct -- assuming your deregulated electricity hasn't been shut off -- turn out the lights, and hold flashlights under your chins...then read this tale to each other well into the wee hours of the night before your rent is due...[insert scream here].

Customer Reviews:

Erika Lopez Scores Again.......2002-05-08

Great book and a wonderful finish to the Tomato trilogy of books. Hey, I'm a straight girl living in Virginia and I love these books. They are smart, funny, gritty, and worth every penny. Long live the mummu queens!

Slap my meat and call me dinner.......2001-06-15

Erika Lopez brings the Tomato Trilogy to a close with an intelligent guffaw burst. Tomato Rodriguez, fresh from prison (she only kidnapped her ex-girlfriend for a few minutes, honest!), finds her beloved San Francisco changed. It's been taken over by the evil Latte People! Ack! Unable to cope with this gentrification, she flees into the desert, where she encounters Miss Fabulous, a one-breasted owner of a radioactive barbecue, who helps Tomato find her inner Hoochie Mama. Misinterpreting her mission, Tomato storms back to San Fran with a new sidekick called Fishstick and proceeds to kicks ass and take names! Yeah! Oh, wait. That's not what she was supposed to do... Lopez gives us the smackdown on society with her sassy characters, meandering meditations, pork on a fork, and sparkling insights. It's a perfect blend of humor and education, and I'll agree that this is her best yet. I only wish the cover was a scratch-n-lick. Alas, maybe next time.

A knock down, drag out time, just what I needed!.......2001-04-21

First of all - I could barely get past the way cool cover. I want to color copy it and frame it because it is so stunning. My 10 year old son saw it and um, couldn't take his eyes off of it either (oh gosh, now he asking questions about chi-chis)...I got this book while at work and didn't talk to my carpool partner the whole way home because I was so excited to read it. I ended up reading it out loud! Hootchie Mama is a far out must have book for all women who can't help it if they are drawn to the wild side. The pages have entertaining line drawings that add to the spirit. Just buy it to see for yourself YOU WON'T REGRET IT!!

COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN!--FOR TWO YEARS!.......2000-11-05

Okay, I couldn't put it down because I wrote this book and it seemed to take forever to finish. Two years of paying such close attention to the hyper-gentrification all around me in San Francisco was like having my head held down in a toilet. Every day. Imagine that. / I would've liked to have put this book down--again and again--and LIVE my life before I was forced to leave the city. / You know, frolic in the wind, feed tuna to the pigeons, throw frisbees to stray dogs... that sort of thing.

But no./I couldn't put this book down.

So I think this book's the best one I've written. I could be wrong, very wrong. But I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that I think it's great. Fantastic. Even woo-woo FUN. But we ALL know how rickety limbs can be... Just like some of our economic holds in America.

Yes./And that's is the reason for the resentful, minimum-wage tone of this book. It's for the person who feels herself to be a part of the cleaning staff for this ROARING American party of over-achievers with perfect credit ratings... And those with a morbid curiosity about what it's like to be a renter, pillaging the sofa cushions for change, will find peering at this little tale as fascinating as a two-headed baby floating in a jar of formaldehyde and the county fair.

But mostly, it's a scary, scary story to be read when your electricity's been shut off and you're gathering around the heating duct with your flashlight under your chin... read this in the wee hours of the night before your rent is due. It's a WARNING FOR RENTERS TO BEWARE... RUN AND HIDE...

[Insert scream here.]

...La la la.

---Erika "Mad Dog" Lopez

Book Description

Hoochie Mamas! To be or not to be? They range from talkative and outgoing to the closet freak! Don't assume you know what happens!

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Hoochie Mama
JTOYA NELSON
Manufacturer: Lulu.com
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 1430303204

Postings from hoochie mama: Erika Lopes, graphic art, and female subjectivity

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Postings from hoochie mama: Erika Lopes, graphic art, and female subjectivity
Laura Laffrado
Manufacturer: University of Michigan Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0006S648I

Book Description

In a beautifully written narrative that runs from childhood to adulthood through times of war and peace, Scott Simon movingly tracing his life as a fanof sports, theater, politics, and the people and things he holds dear. Sports Illustrated columnist Ron Fimrite says Rarely do you find in books of this genre a clearer look into mysteries and confusions of childhood moving and often amusing portraits.

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Chicago Sports, History & Life.......2005-07-14

Scott Simon does an excellent job recreating the atmosphere in Chicago during his childhood, and up to the end of the Michael Jordan era.

Having grown up there (10 years behind Scott), I could really relate to his storytelling and history. His vivid descriptions brought back lots of great memories.

I enjoyed the way he tied the sports into larger issues going on in his life, in society, and in the world. I really got a good feeling how American sports create good will around the planet.

This book is mandatory for any Chicago sports fan, and will be enjoyable for anyone who ever related to their father via sports.

Great Narration, Bad Facts.......2002-03-23

Any sports fan (especially from the Chicago area) will definitely enjoy this story of growing up as a fan in Chicago. The only thing that keeps me from giving this book 4 stars is the inaccuracies. In several instances, Simon gives incorrect scores, dates and places. You would think it would be easy for someone in his position to have the correct info, so this unfortunately distracted me from an otherwise fine read.

For any sports fan!.......2002-03-03

I admit, as a transplanted Chicagoan and die-hard sports fan, its hard to be objective about this book. Scott Simon cleverly weaves his own personal remembrances of growing up in Chicago, into an historic timeline of sports and politics, which amounts to must read for anyone who wants a true glimpse into the soul of 'the city with big shoulders'.
I laughed hard and often at the family anecdotes, its easy to see where Simon gets his sense of humor, thrilled at reliving the Cub season of '69 and saddened, once again, at Brian Piccolo's courageous battle with cancer.
After finishing 'Home and Away', I was compelled to send copies to a few of my sports buddies...less fortunate souls having grown up in cities of less character.
I am a fan of the city, its teams (except the Sox...go Cubbies), and this writer ,who embodies it all so well in this book.
Bravo.

Starts Superbly, Oozing with Sap by the End.......2001-03-07

I picked up Home and Away because I like to read books on sports by sophisticated minds. And initially, I wasn't disappointed. Scott Simon delivers a vivid depiction of his childhood and his childhood love for sports, offering touching and revealing personal moments in the process. When he discusses his father and stepfather, we see the fan in a context larger than just the game, which I appreciated and admired.

But after the stepfather's criminal conviction, the narrative transitions into the story of the recent Bulls dynasty. Here is where book's self-indulgent love for Chicago turns to insufferable, sentimental cheese. In addition to slathering extra layers of sentimental goo on the Bulls--more than Simon previously appropriated for either Butkus's or Ditka's Bears--Simon covers ground already covered expertly and thoroughly by David Halberstam in Playing for Keeps. Only unlike Halberstam, Simon all but kisses Michael Jordan's behind, assessing no blame and even offering excuses for the star's occasional bad behavior. To me, the blatant sycophancy (is that a word?) on the part of the author makes me wonder if he willfully compromised his journalistic integrity or if that occurrence was inadvertant. Either way, I was thoroughly disappointed and had to stop reading. As do most Chicagoans, Simon simply got unBearably self-indulgent in his love for his city.

Calling All Chicagoans Abroad!.......2000-08-22

Having been a fan of Simon's weekly radio program on NPR and finding out we were both Chicagoans born around the same time, I purchased this book for my father and found myself loathe to give it up to him! I am not a true sports fan, merely a starry-eyed optimist who always roots for the underdog (especially now I live in Los Angeles!) so I always held a soft spot in my heart for the Cubbies. But this book is so brimming with love and life for the game, not only of baseball but the grrrrrreat Chicago Bears and the awesome Chicago Bulls, that I wish I could go back and see all the games that Simon so gloriously describes. Except I don't have to, because with his prodigious gifts as a writer, he makes you see it through his eyes, wide with respect and more than a little adoration. I can't recommend this book enough for anyone who ever had a passion for a team, an individual or a city like Chicago. You won't regret taking this journey with Simon and I eagerly await his next trip. By the way, I was lucky enough to make his acquaintance at a book signing recently and found him to be even more delightful in person, truly a "mensch." He deserves all the kudos he's received for his work and many more.

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Dancing With The Witchdoctor - One Woman's Stories Of Mystery And Adventure In Africa
Kelly James
Manufacturer: Perennial / Harper-collins
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000P6H52U

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page turner

Highly entertaining

One of the best books I've read in 5 yrs.

a good read, but is it true?

African Adventures

Dancing With the Witchdoctor: One Woman's Stories of Mystery and Adventure in Africa
Kelly James
Manufacturer: Thorndike Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0786238097

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Kelly James has been an international private investigator on five continents, but it was in Africa that she realized her "greatest adventures and most memorable insights into the human experience." Given the scope of her work--investigating murders, missing persons, safari accidents, and tangled multinational affairs in the face of such obstacles as lions, famine, kidnappers, and tribal warfare--James takes adventure and insight into territory barely imaginable to the rest of us. The result is a stunning quartet of tales of her most memorable adventures.

In the opening story, "Detour," James travels to Mombasa, Kenya, to determine whether the death of a remarkable coffee plantation owner was suicide or murder and to hunt for a missing inheritance. Along the way she discovers a mysterious, top-secret school in the jungle. On a "pleasure" trip to Rwanda to see mountain gorillas, accompanied by a morose American teenager, James is caught in gorilla-poaching crossfire and faces the sort of impossible questions Africa so frequently poses--whose life is more valuable, that of an African child or a baby gorilla? In Beira, a coastal city in Mozambique, she and her friend David are given one day to search for David's missing mother and sister while the Russians pull out, guerrilla fighters approach, and a mass demonstration circles the wreckage. And in the final dramatic story, James just barely survives renegade Turkana warriors, 120-degree heat, starvation, crocodiles, broken ribs, and a head injury in the search for the lost Dr. Kali, an English-educated Turkana witchdoctor. James is truly an audacious explorer--skilled not only in a number of languages but also in living with almost nothing and in the most hostile of environments. She is also tough on her clients. However, just when you think you're reading nothing more than a very good mystery, complete with colorful international characters and whodunit conundrums, accompanied by a woman long on smarts and balls but short on compassion, she thrusts you squarely into the heart of Africa, where it is impossible not to feel deeply. These are haunting stories written by a remarkable woman who knows not only how to live a life of risk, but how to tell a terrific story. --Lesley Reed

Book Description

In a series of moving and powerful stories based on her experiences as a private investigator, Kelly James draws us into the mystery that is Africa. A lone woman searching for the lost, she exposes us to a world where truth is ephemeral, and where compassion, though frail, still bleeds through the grit and dust.

In "Detour" she investigates the apparent suicide of a beloved coffee plantation owner in Kenya. In "Gorillas and Banana Beer," James ventures into the jungles of Rwanda to catch a glimpse of the nearly extinct mountain gorillas, only to struggle for survival against merciless poachers in a village of forgotten children. In "Beira," at the edge of Mozambique and anarchy's ground-zero, James searches for a lost woman and her daughter. "Witchdoctor" takes James deep into Turkanaland, otherwise known as "hell on earth," to find a woman doctor who has disappeared. James's sanity and life hang in the balance in a surreal and ferocious closing to this compelling debut work.

Dancing with the Witchdoctor is a testimony to the strength of women, one that reveals how even in a land where flesh withers in the sun, there is no better proof of humanity than when it is on the brink.

Customer Reviews:

page turner.......2007-05-07

I was prepared not to like this book; usually I am not a fan of short stories. After I read the first page, I could not put it down. Each story is a unique tale about the strength and power of women. The writer's straightforward and realistic writing style was refreshing. My husband loved the book - amazing adventure stories for all.

Highly entertaining.......2006-01-06

This book is a thoroughly good read. If you've been to Africa, or dream of going there, by all means have a look. However, I'm also intrigued by the negative review below by the English literature professor who "found this book in the bargain isle ..." Exactly where is the Bargain Isle and can I book a cruise there? Sounds like a shopper's dream.

One of the best books I've read in 5 yrs........2005-09-04

Avoid the nit-picking reviews over whether it really happened to her or not;it is labeled "fiction".I savored her stories like the finest chocolates;I wanted to read them all at once but rationed myself to one a night.Anybody criticizing her either cant write or is destined to fish discount books out of the clearance bin while stomping their feet that they teach literature.
You want a book filled with travel,mysticism,endurance and the overall goodness of people,then by all means buy it.I wish she would write another book!

a good read, but is it true? .......2005-06-16

I've lived and worked in Africa and these stories did not ring true with me...great adventures, based on some experiences, maybe...but biography??...I just don't know. Would love to know and would be happy to eat my words.

African Adventures.......2005-04-07

Do you dream of going to Africa one day? If so, this book is a must read. I could not put it down. You will be amazed by these four adventures......sometimes scary, sometimes funny. This book is a keeper and I will be reading it again soon.

Dancing With the Witchdoctor: One Woman's Stories of Mystery and Adventure in Africa

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Dancing With the Witchdoctor: One Woman's Stories of Mystery and Adventure in Africa
Kelly James
Manufacturer: William Morrow & Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OEFNAY

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Dancing with the Witchdoctor: One Woman's Stories of Mystery and Adventure in Africa
Kelly James
Manufacturer: Perennial
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OEOIH8

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