Public Displays of Affection

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Charlotte Tasker has always been a good girl, so she married the most decent, reliable man she could find even though their love life was a bit on the predictable side. Thirteen years later, she's a widowed mom who runs her company, prepares three vegetarian meals a day for her children, and volunteers for just about every good deed in town. But no one knows that Charlotte has a secret weakness for squirt cheese, erotic poetry-and the mystery man she lost her virginity to in a reckless roadside tryst, moments before she got engaged. They never exchanged names, and even now, Charlotte can't stop fantasizing about that spectacular stranger....DEA agent Joe Bellacera isn't crazy about having to hide out in Minton, Ohio before testifying at the trial of a notorious drug lord. But he's handling it just fine....until he lays eyes on a fiery redhead and a hot little body he'd recognize anywhere. Joe's never had another woman like Charlotte since that day thirteen years ago. Now she's his neighbor-and strictly off-limits....Amid the balmy, honeysuckle-scented breezes of a Midwestern summer, sense and sensibility are about to be subverted by an ice cream-loving dog, conspiring kids, and nosy neighbors. And when the Widow Tasker's fantasies meet the rock-hard reality of Agent Bellacera, let the fireworks begin....

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great romance, but a bit boring.......2007-03-07

as the title says - it is public displays of affection. the romance is hot - literally - but the story is a bit boring.

Meanreader.......2006-08-24

Despite a couple of very improbable scenarios, this book was joyable and a pleasant read.

Public Displays of Affection.......2006-08-24

Fifty cents, at a thrift store, and I finished it in less than a day. That shows how I easily get sucked into these sappy romance novels.
Okay, Charlotte lost her virginity in an anonymous encounter on the side of the road thirteen years ago, on her way to get proposed to. And her, and the man, Joe, always remember.
Now, thirteen years later, she is a widow with two kids. He's a DEA Agent going into hiding because some drug lord guy has a price on his head. And they end up being nextdoor neighbors.
Intriguing? I thought so. If you are a fan of these sappy romances, then go for it. But if you get offended at the slightest mention of sex then I would advise you stay away from this book because there's a whole lot of it in it.

Public Displays of Affection.......2006-03-14

Liked the book. Enjoyed the characters. Although the characters were likeable and interesting enough, I didn't feel ilke I was drawn in as much as I could have been. Other than that, I really enjoyed the book and was rooting for them to be able to be together. I really liked the prologue at the end of the book. That is soooo much better than just ending a story without knowing what happens to the people.

A steamy romance.......2006-02-08

Another great book by Susan Donovan. First let me say that I love this author and I really did enjoy this book, but unlike her other books I did have trouble with the premise of this book. Mostly, I don't like it when the main characters of a romance novel fall head-over-heels for each other with so little time and dialog between them. It is asking too much of a reader to believe in the story. However, despite the story being darn right unrealistic -- it was a well written story with great characters, and the romance was quite steamy! It didn't have the comedy feel like her other books, but it was still a great read. I couldn't put it down, and I can't wait for her next book to come out.

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The most wonderful collection of illustrations by Sempe.

Displays of Affection
Jean-Jacques Sempe
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With pen and ink, and with gentle understanding, France's most acclaimed cartoonist explores the question of the delicate balance. Displays of Affection pictures love in cozy parlors, on a starry night, in chic apartments, on a windswept beach, on a wobbly bicycle. Close to 100 drawings and captions evoke tenderness, melancholy, skirmish, and triumph. "Vulnerability is la condition humaine," Sempe told The New York Times. In this funny and moving book, his lovers and couples prove it every time. Sempe's people live in a world that is not necessarily easy for lovers. (After all, out of 2000 possible lovers, how do you find the ideal one?) But as they struggle to find each other nevertheless, they often discover, like the couple dancing alone to the strains of a full-piece orchestra in their own backyard, that "things seem to sort themselves out."

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The most wonderful collection of illustrations by Sempe........1999-09-17

The most wonderful collection fo illustrations by Sempe

GUIDE FOR COLLECTORS M.J. HUMMEL THE ULTIMATE DISPLAY OF AFFECTION

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GUIDE FOR COLLECTORS M.J. HUMMEL THE ULTIMATE DISPLAY OF AFFECTION

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Public Displays of Affection
Susan Donovan
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Public displays of affection for PDAs on campus. (technology today).(Personal Digital Assistants )(Brief Article): An article from: Community College Week

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Public displays of affection for PDAs on campus. (technology today).(Personal Digital Assistants )(Brief Article): An article from: Community College Week
Ronald Roach
Manufacturer: Cox, Matthews & Associates
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This digital document is an article from Community College Week, published by Cox, Matthews & Associates on November 12, 2001. The length of the article is 728 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Public displays of affection for PDAs on campus. (technology today).(Personal Digital Assistants )(Brief Article)
Author: Ronald Roach
Publication: Community College Week (Newspaper)
Date: November 12, 2001
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Volume: 14 Issue: 7 Page: 18(1)

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Displays of Affection
Jean Jacques Sempee
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The beloved bestselling author of Forever Fifty and Suddenly Sixty now tackles the ins and outs of becoming a septuagenarian with her usual wry good humor.

Fans of Judith Viorst's funny, touching, and wise poems about turning thirty, forty, fifty, and sixty will love this new volume for the woman who deeply believes she is too young to be seventy, "too young in my heart and my soul, if not in my thighs."

Viorst explores, among the many other issues of this stage of life, the state of our sex lives and teeth, how we can stay married though thermostatically incompatible, and the joys of grandparenthood and shopping. Readers will nod with rueful recognition when she asks, "Am I required to think of myself as a basically shallow woman because I feel better when my hair looks good?," when she presses a few helpful suggestions on her kids because "they may be middle aged, but they're still my children," and when she graciously -- but not too graciously -- selects her husband's next mate in a poem deliciously subtitled "If I Should Die Before I Wake, Here's the Wife You Next Should Take." Though Viorst acknowledges she is definitely not a good sport about the fact that she is mortal, her poems are full of the pleasures of life right now, helping us come to terms with the passage of time, encouraging us to keep trying to fix the world, and inviting us to consider "drinking wine, making love, laughing hard, caring hard, and learning a new trick or two as part of our job description at seventy."

I'm Too Young to Be Seventy is a joy to read and makes a heartwarming gift for anyone who has reached or is soon to reach that -- it's not so bad after all -- seventh decade.

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Yes Witty, But Far Far More.......2007-06-26

I bought this book for an older friend turning 70, and -- laughing out loud -- read it before wrapping. It's not only witty (and thoughtful) for those turning 70, but for those of us who will someday reach 70, and have friends of 70.
Sometimes I feel I have grown up with Judith Viorst. She is enough older that her age milestone books are out and available before I turn 30, 40 50, and on.
I first became familiar with her when "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day" became a favorite of my first son. That must have been in the 1970s, and because the book was not only funny but so very wise about life and all its perplexities, I eventually sought out everything she wrote. I especially recommend "Necessary Losses" from her more serious books.
If you haven't read Viorst, get this for a take on turning 70 with grace and humor. Then read the rest of her books too! Necessary Losses: The Loves, Illusions, Dependencies, and Impossible Expectations That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Grow Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day The Tenth Good Thing About Barney Suddenly Sixty And Other Shocks Of Later Life

I'm Too Young To Be Seventy: And Other Delusions.......2007-05-26

I purchased this book as a gift for my cousin's 70th birthday and of course perused it myself. The birthday lady, as well as everyone present for her celebration enjoyed the poems and quips, and we laughed out loud as we all read them.

She's nailed it again!.......2007-05-14

Judith Viorst has been describing the decades as she matures - with humor, understanding, and appreciation of the things lost and gained. My only complaint - the book's too short!

I'm Too Young To Be Seventy: And Other Delusions.......2006-11-10

I have all of Judith Viorst's books in this series and have loved them all. The first one was It's Hard To Be Hip Over Thirty And Other Tragedies Of Married Life. Each decade from that first one through this one has been a real companion. They make the perfect birthday gift for your women friends. Every woman relates to Judith Viorst's take on growing up and growing older.

Comical.......2006-08-02

I purchased this book to give to a friend who was retiring at 70. I am glad that I "went through" it before wrapping it. It is a comical book, but does not work for a lady who is not married, has never been married, and has no grandchildren, otherwise a cute gift. Now, I have it in my "gift giving" pile and will wait to find the right person to give it to. In the meantime, I need to find another "funny"for the retiring lady.

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In 1971, Melvin Van Peebles’s independently produced film Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song became the top-grossing independent film of that year, helped usher in the blaxploitation genre, and served as the flag-bearer for independent filmmakers. Melvin’s original diary of his struggles to conceptualize, finance, film, and distribute Sweetback will become an indispensable guide for aspiring filmmakers. Melvin is the authentic pioneer, and his achievement—and the determination he displayed—are eye-opening and inspiring. As son Mario Van Peebles (who made his debut in Sweetback) recalls in his Introduction, “[Melvin] was forced to self-finance, constantly on the brink of ruin, his crew got arrested and jailed, death threats, and yet [at first] he refused to submit his film to the all-white MPAA ratings board for approval. The film then received an X rating. My dad, true to form, printed t-shirts that read ‘Rated X ... by an all white jury’ and made it part of his marketing campaign.” Mario reflects on his father’s example and contrasts Melvin’s guerrilla filmmaking with the possibilities—technological, economic, and cultural—open to filmmakers, especially black filmmakers, today. Photographs are included in this incredible filmmaking manifesto.

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Innovator.......2007-02-28

Melvin Van Peebles is a true innovator and produced the first successful independent film in America. He ushered in the genre of Blaxploitation films. He made a cool 10 million dollars and most of it way pure profit. He had no investors, because know one would contribute. Though the images may have been somewhat sterotypical, the black folks were starved to see images of themselves. The way he got the movie made, with unknown actors, was incredible. Of course once the movie was made, distribution was a problem. So what did he do? He took the movie to be shown where the folks were.

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Cultural Writing. Travelogue. J J Ratter is better known as Penny Rimbaud, outspoken drummer and lyricist of the seminal anarcho-punk band CRASS. In 1973 he made a two-month journey across America which he describes as a "quest for the spirit of my two literary heroes, Whitman and Kerouac." What he found was an America torn apart by its humiliations in Vietnam and the political mess in Watergate. On his return to England, Ratter commenced work on THE DIAMOND SUTRA, expressing the growing sense of anger and disillusionment shared by so many young people of the time. Twenty-five years and innumerable rewrites later, THE DIAMOND SIGNATURE offers an account of Ratter's continued struggle "to create an identity in a culture that has ceased to have one."

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A Crony, a Moll, and a stack of greenbacks.......2005-06-01

Anthony Holden gives us a look inside the globe-traveling world of high stakes poker as he chronicles his one year attempt to make a go of it as a professional poker player. His perspective is that of a well-educated british journalist, and this comes through with a score of literary references as well as with some self-deprecating wit.

For the aspiring serious poker player, the book is interesting, but not necessarily helpful in guiding one's poker-related career goals. In fact, it's not so much a "How to" as a "How NOT to." Over the course of a year, Holden is obviously playing well, as his various near-money finishes demonstrate. However, he also makes a series of poor decisions, and the biggest financial moments of the year are predicated on luck and fluke rather than on skill.

Playing jet-lagged and inebriated, habitually turning to the blackjack tables as a way to rebuild lost funds, Holden nails huge pots when he shouldn't, as when he catches one of two sevens in the deck to take down a big score against Johnny Moss.

Conversely, he is busted out of two consecutive World Series of Poker tournaments by being extremely unlucky, falling to a "three-outer" each time.

The book is generally interesting and exciting to read, although I would have liked fewer digressions into the history and culture of poker, and more information on the mechanics of the solid play that gets Holden rolling on a poker cruise.

This book will teach people a lot about poker, without teaching them about how to play better poker.

pretty good, but not great.......2005-03-23

Holden emulates Alvarez with this book.
Holden writes about trying to make it as a player for a year, culminating in playing in the World Series and chronicling that event in the way Alvarez does in BIGGEST GAME IN TOWN.
Holden does a competent job. As you read the book, you'll be entertained, even though the narrator is not always incredibly like-able.
If you haven't read BIGGEST GAME IN TOWN, get that one first. If you have already read the Alvarez, then BIG DEAL is worth checking out.

Clever and Fun. .......2004-10-10

Big Deal is a vivid, charming tour many famous poker venues and events around the world through the eyes of a full-time writer and wannabe pro. Mr. Holden is quite skilled as a journalist. Through his description, one really feels like they are there in Malta as rain causes the roof to crumble. He has a strong eye for important and interesting details. Many of his quotations are invaluable and the book flows like words from the mouth of Amarillo Slim. The narrator has his own issues but one cannot help but be sympathetic towards him and cheer for his doomed attempts in becoming a poker legend.

The book will completely appeal to dreamers on every continent who wish to avoid spending the rest of their days working for the man (or mam as the case often is nowadays).

His trip to the psychologist and brief discussion of the psychology behind gambling was enlightening. I learned from his "shrink's" perspective and welcomed the alternative hypothesis concerning what makes people gamble. Saying it's simply masochism alone is in no way a universal explanation.

As a narrator, Holden unfortunately introduces some politics into his text. He exudes smug anti-Americanism in spades. (Yawn...) He appears to think the majority of us are uncouth and disinterested in the finer things of life although his friend Eric Drache obviously belies his stereotyped impressions. He makes digs about Margaret Thatcher and embraces the foppish left-wing notions of many in the English elite but there is no substance behind his snarky comments. Holden intentionally describes some hick at the table as predictably being a Republican. Southerners are also a target and to think, just because a gambling event in Louisiana was cancelled, that nothing has changed in the south in 150 years time is absurd, flawd, and deeply prejudiced.

He notes that many poker players are right wing, but why they are is the crucial angle he refuses to explore. All poker players are capitalists by definition--whether they admit it or not. Maximizing profit is why we sit at the table. Those who play should be opposed to redistributionist schemes. True social justice is about keeping what you've earned which is what poker is all about. Oh well, such mindless political asides are not representative of the whole book but they are annoying enough to keep me from giving it five stars. Otherwise, good show London Tony!

Pocket 77.......2003-11-27

To me this book was like pocket sevens, you feel bad throwing it away, but it's really not worth your time. Interesting at times, some good stories, but not all that great.

A classic poker diary.......2003-09-09

British journalist Holden recounts a year in his life spent travelling the world playing poker, his training course for the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.

A classic of poker writing, it makes me ask whether all poker writers know each other. The other best-read in the category is A. Alvarez's The Biggest Game in Town. Alvarez and Holden are regulars at their Tuesday Night Game in London. Another well-known author David Spanier (Total Poker) reports on Holden's playing for a UK newspaper.

The book is wide-ranging: from a brief history of the game to exciting card-by-card retelling of hands. It even teaches you the odds in Texas Hold 'Em. If you like the game, you will enjoy this book.

Follow this up with Positively Fifth Street by James McManus, a new poker saga inspired by Holden and Alvarez.

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Giving Trivial Pursuit's Arts & Entertainment category a run for its money, David E. Mersereau has created a trivia book devoted to those shows that you can catch only on Nick At Nite or on late night television. Focusing on those little details that made such shows as "All in the Family," "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and "The Brady Bunch" unique and fun to watch, David Mersereau has created a book of trivia that will stump even the most dedicated couch potato.

"The Official Couch Potato's TV Trivia Quiz Book" is a wonderfully compiled presentation of television teasers from past to present. It is more than a book - it's a game, one that will be enjoyed for hours by everyone in the family.

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