Sierra Club 2005 Wilderness Calendar

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Have your money go someplace good.......2007-03-14

This calendar is handy and they make on each year. I like that my money for a basic item like a calendar is going to a good cause. And the photos are beautiful--very calming and peaceful.

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This book aims at the development of an institutional approach to general economic equilibrium. It is argued that general equilibrium theory forms a well-rounded basis for the development of an institutional economic theory. The fundamental economic trade mechanism underlying this re-focusing is that of the Edgeworthian barter mechanism modeled through the equilibrium notion of the core of an economy. In the first part a summary of the well-established insights regarding the core of an economy is given. Next the book explores the extensive literature that links the core with the Walrasian price mechanism through core convergence results, the comparison of core allocations with Walrasian equilibrium allocations, and equivalence results. In the second part an alternative model of Edgeworthian barter in the setting of a large institutionally structured economy is developed. Two new Edgeworthian equilibrium concepts are considered - the semi-core and the contract-core. The book concludes by showing that equivalence is extremely hard to achieve and that perfect competition thus has a pathological nature.

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By exploring the price dynamics and business cycle of the Italian economy with reference to the most important international events, this text sheds new light on the country's current situation. Using a long-term analytical framework underpinned by principal theoretical approaches, the analysis places particular emphasis on price dynamics. The text begins with the country's post-war difficulties and then covers the boom-and-bust period of the "Italian miracle", before moving onto the lasting inflationary process of the 70s and 80s, and finally the financial crisis of the 90s and the beginning of the new century. The book also investigates the positive and negative aspects of policy measures. An important implication of this approach is that it assesses the different evolutionary aspects of the Italian economic structure, which in turn gives way to an analysis of the dynamic behaviour of policy makers and social partners.

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Big news: Baby's First Disney Books are now bilingual! It's easier, and more fun, than ever for the adorable Disney Babies characters to teach your baby about shapes, colors, letters, and other important early-learning concepts. Filled with fun Disney adventures, the bright, colorful board books are simply irresistible to baby. Each one features short, simple sentences that are repeated in both English and Spanish to help make learning easier. Plus, the sturdy pages with rounded corners help keep your little one safe!Spanish title: Que vas a hacer hoy?

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Waves and waves of fun!
Cute and Whimsical, but also Rambles

What's A Hoy? A Guide To Modern Boating
Andrew J. Brown
Manufacturer: Argo Pr Inc
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0971854009

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What's A Hoy? is a humorous book about the lighter side of boating. It is a cutting edge, slightly irreverent book that pokes fun at the less glamorous side of boating to which all boaters can identify. It addresses topics such as life in the marina, boating and the elderly, boat show and more. A must for every boat.

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Waves and waves of fun!.......2006-12-02

I loved this book. Cap'n Drew Brown has done it again with his wonderful talent for making boating facts fun & funny. An easy and "happy" read, "What's A Hoy?" is great for seafarers and landlubbers alike!

Cute and Whimsical, but also Rambles.......2003-04-24

This is a cute book with an ironic collection of stories, cartoons and lists. There are a few nuggets of humor for every nautical taste, in a very light read. While not as engaging as some outdoor humor, this is an entertaining book for boat lovers.

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This is a book with powerful truths to change lives!
This book really changed my problem with anger!
What's Good About Anger? continues to help me
Biblical guidelines and powerful truths to deal with anger

What's Good About Anger?
Lynette J. Hoy
Manufacturer: CounselCare Connection
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

What's Good About Anger? - Second Edition

ASIN: 0971759901

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What's Good About Anger? provides biblical insight into the power, problem, process- from annoyance to bitterness or rage, and management of anger for Christians.

The authors write, "Most people believe that anger is a negative emotion from which no good can come. Many Christians think that anger should not be expressed and that such feelings are sinful. This book explores the emotion of anger and how anger-which is part of the human experience-is a force God can use for His purposes."

Learn biblical examples of how to turn your anger into faith, assertiveness, problem-solving and forgiveness! You will gain a new perspective on anger, how to let God control you when it flares up and how to help others struggling with anger. Includes guidelines for group study and Application Devotionals for anger management.

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This is a book with powerful truths to change lives!.......2002-03-06

"This book is a real God-send for those struggling with anger and for those who have family members struggling with anger. Anyone could benefit from this book because it looks at the roots of anger and offers very practical Biblical guidelines to deal with anger. As a counselor, I have seen how anger can be so very destructive to individuals and families. Ted and Lynette have done a tremendous job in helping give greater understanding to this issue with powerful proven truths that will definitely change lives."

This book really changed my problem with anger!.......2002-03-06

"I understand that anger isn't always wrong and it has a purpose when you use it to bring about positive results. I can seek help from the Lord to control this. I don't have to and shouldn't use suppression as an adequate coping mechanism. It has helped by giving me an improved technique for managing my anger. Using time-outs and prayer has shown me imporovements in my communication with those who anger me. I can be assertive without being angry. It has helped me assert my feelings in a positive way. I am getting imporoved results . .. and am continuing to receive benefit from this book. I am thankful to the authors for helping me."

What's Good About Anger? continues to help me.......2002-03-03

I have been reviewing What's Good About Anger? again and have found it continues to help me evaluate cognitive distortions I have and work on changing them to truth. Also, I am discovering how to use new coping skills to manage my anger. The Application Devotionals have really helped me learn about God's love, grace and power which is available to help me work through my anger in a biblical way.

Biblical guidelines and powerful truths to deal with anger.......2002-03-02

This book is a real Godsend for those struggling with anger and
for those who have family members who struggle with anger.
Anyone could benefit from this book because it looks at the roots of anger and offers very practical Biblical guidelines to deal with anger. As a counselor, I have seen how anger can be so very destructive to individuals and families. Ted and Lynette have done a tremendous job in helping give greater understanding to this issue with powerful proven truths that will definitely change lives.

¿Cómo está al tiempo hoy? / What Is the Weather Like Today? (Dual Language Readers)

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¿Cómo está al tiempo hoy? / What Is the Weather Like Today? (Dual Language Readers)
Kim Mitzo Thompson
Manufacturer: School Specialty Publishing
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Mel Bay's Deluxe Fiddling Method
Craig Duncan
Manufacturer: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
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Binding: Spiral-bound

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ASIN: 0786665246

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Mel Bay's Deluxe Fiddling Method
Craig Duncan
Manufacturer: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Spiral-bound

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ASIN: 0786659629

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This book presents a general survey of American fiddling. The author's intent is to teach the basics of fiddling by beginning with essential bowings and fingerings, and progressing from simple to more complex renditions of tunes. As fiddling is an aural tradition and fiddlers from different parts of the country play a given tune in many ways, tunes included in this book are offered only as themselves. The author has attempted to present usable fingerings, bowings and explanations of each of the 49 tunes in this book. The end result is the most widely-used fiddle method available! The CD is in split-track format, allowing the fiddler to play with the fiddle solo, guitar and/or fiddle accompaniment, or both! Contains every tune in the book. On the DVD Craig Duncan is joined by guitarist Robert Bowlin in performing 32 tunes from the popular text, Mel Bay's Deluxe Fiddling Method. Each tune is performed at slow and medium tempos. Shuffle bowing and double shuffle bowing techniques are presented. Notation is shown at the bottom of the screen beneath split-screen views of both hands. This video sets a new standard for home teaching tools and is perfect for beginning students and for those who play the instrument, but want to learn more about fiddling.

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Mel Bay's Deluxe Fiddling Method

Manufacturer: Mel Bay
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Spiral-bound
ASIN: B000EFIN0K

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Time Travel.......2001-12-25

It's not great literature, but it does capture a moment in time in pop culture. The older People Almanacs are not as glitzy or smoothly written as the newer ones, which make them all the more fun. This is a great book for people who like to collect old People magazines and just want to recapture some memories as to non-serious history during a year in one's life.

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Phoenix Force-Night of the Thuggee.......2000-07-07

This is one of the first books I had read in this amazing series. It instally caught my attention with its nonstop action and creativity. The author describes the characters in such detail that you feel as if they are real and you have known them your whole life. In this book the Force is trying to stop a twisted KGB plot that is terrorizing tourists in India. The Force is sent to find the masterminds and destroy the plot.I had gotten the book at a local library and have since read more then 35 of these books in the past four months. Each book brings you to the next one. These books are great and I would reccomend them to anyone looking to put a little action into their lives.

Fodor's Pocket Phoenix & Scottsdale 2001: The All-in-One Guide to Fun-Filled Days and Nights Packed with Places to Eat, Sl eep, Shop, and Explore (Pocket Guides)

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Fodor's Pocket Phoenix & Scottsdale 2001: The All-in-One Guide to Fun-Filled Days and Nights Packed with Places to Eat, Sl eep, Shop, and Explore (Pocket Guides)
Fodor's
Manufacturer: Fodor's
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0679007199
Release Date: 2001-03-13

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"An excellent choice for people who want everything under one cover." - Washington Post

Fodor's Pocket Guides are designed for people who just want the highlights. They contain full, rich descriptions of major cities around the globe including the most worthy sights, the best restaurants and lodging, plus shopping, nightlife, and outdoors highlights - all in a new trim, petit package.

All the basics you need to help you decide what to see and do in the time you have.

Smart contacts and detailed practical information, including the scoop on public transportation, local holidays, what to pack, and more.

The very best dining and lodging in every price range.

Great recommendations for shopping nightlife, outdoor, activities, and essential side trips.

Detailed maps with sights, restaurants, nightspots, and hotels clearly marked.

Easy-to-use new interior design with blue ink and fun graphics.

The Bedside Phoenix Nest: 21 Nights With America's Humorists

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The Bedside Phoenix Nest: 21 Nights With America's Humorists
Levin
Manufacturer: Ives Washburn Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000HF9ZGI

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The bedside Phoenix nest; 21 nights with America's humorists
Martin Levin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B00005X8MY

Excaliber, Night of the Phoenix, 29th Issue, Late Sept 1990

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Excaliber, Night of the Phoenix, 29th Issue, Late Sept 1990

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ASIN: B000CKJI06

GALAXY - Science Fiction - Volume 38, number 2 - August Aug 1977: Sun Planet; Kin to Kaspar Hauser; Passport for a Phoenix; Night Runners; What Song the Sirens Sang; A Step Farther Out

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GALAXY - Science Fiction - Volume 38, number 2 - August Aug 1977: Sun Planet; Kin to Kaspar Hauser; Passport for a Phoenix; Night Runners; What Song the Sirens Sang; A Step Farther Out
James (editor) (Greg Bear; Lisa Tuttle; Steven Utley; Jan Haffley; Charles Sheffield; J. E. Pournelle; Spider Robinson) Baen
Manufacturer: Universal Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N2Q5XG

Long Night Watch (Phoenix Award Book (Awards))

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Long Night Watch (Phoenix Award Book (Awards))
Ivan Southall
Manufacturer: Farrar Straus & Giroux (J)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0374346445

Love in the Night (Phoenix 60p Paperbacks)

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A beautiful and sad story about two lonely peoples love.

Love in the Night (Phoenix 60p Paperbacks)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Manufacturer: Orion Publishing Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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When a greeting card is too little and a dozen roses is too much, a Greetings Book is the perfect gift. Features a full-color foil binding attractive enough to leave unwrapped, an inscribed removable bookmark, ribbon tie, and delicate full-color illustrations--all enhancing a classic and enduring short story.

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A beautiful and sad story about two lonely peoples love........1998-03-28

F. Scott Fitzgerald capture the atmosphere of the decadence and liveful jazz-age. The book is very well written and you almost float through the book.

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Lyrical, masterful, devastating.
the sadness of unexplored potential
An Impressive First Novel
Too much "prose", not enough story

The Night Bird Cantata
Donald Rawley
Manufacturer: William Morrow & Company
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Binding: Hardcover

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The View from Babylon: The Notes of a Hollywood Voyeur

ASIN: 0380976099

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Donald Rawley's remarkable writing has already graced the pages of The New Yorker, Harper's, and numerous other literary publications. In his debut novel, Rawley weaves his lush prose into a story of boyhood that is as arrestingly beautiful as it is devastating. Through the eyes of ten-year-old Lindsay Paul ("L.P.") Fowler--a hard, pretty and effeminate only child in a wealthy Arizona family--the reader relives the long, hot Southwestern summer of 1968; three months of days whose clarity is both perverse and frightening," L.P. remembers, "held without photographs or postcards or any other telling semblance to prove I existed, and that I survived. " Abandoned without warning by his self-involved mother and cruel, dictatorial grandmother, L.P. is sent off to spend a magical summer in the care of Betty, his grandmother's maid, in black South Phoenix. A former jazz singer at war with inner demons of her own, Betty is the only adult in L.P.'s small universe who has a place in her heart for the troubled boy,

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Lyrical, masterful, devastating........2004-12-10

"It was the summer of my mother's second husband. It was the summer of full moons, night birds and paralyzed daylight; I discovered absence and the magic of pain, gifts that only the unloved can unwrap and save as something precious."

This short, opening paragraph will tell you whether you want to read this book or not. It told me I **had** to read it, and I plunged into one of the most accomplished, vividly realized, and devastating novels I've ever read.

Narrated by an adult L. P., the novel recounts one sweltering childhood summer in Phoenix, Arizona, when the two narcissitic women who rule his life - his neurotic, dependent, barely functional mother and his cruel, ice-hearted grandmother ("a tarantula in mink") - leave L. P. in the care of Betty, their black housekeeper, while they each pursue their own agendas. As an effeminate white boy in Betty's black world, L. P. experiences - for the first time - a responsible adult's love, a love as devoid of sentimentality as it is of hypocrisy. He is also introduced, briefly, to a world of sexuality that he cannot yet comprehend or enter into. But he is old enough to come to understand that his "difference" separates him, forever, from so-called "normal" people. In the last two, heartbreaking chapters, L. P. returns to his mother and grandmother, and comes face to face with the finality of their emotional abandonment. Yet, in a suspenseful denouement, he is able to assess the damage and carry on.

This novel is set in Phoenix. But with its strong women, marginalized sexuality, overlapping but separate worlds of black and white, and sweltering heat, the novel is Southern Gothic in tone. The writing is lyrical, poetic, and occasionally over-rich and strained but not often. The adult L. P. describes his own childhood world with dead-center precision, as he experienced it, with the unflinching clarity achieved after long reflection, and without a trace of self-pity.

Rawley's death in 1998 was a tragedy, first and deepest for his friends and loved ones, but also for those of us who love to read.

the sadness of unexplored potential.......2000-04-25

Three years ago (1997), in Edinburgh, I read a review -in a UK national newspaper - of Donald Rawley's "SLOW DANCE ON THE FAULT LINE", a book of short stories published in Britain but inexplicably delayed for a couple of years in the US. The review was so enthusiastic I bought "SLOW DANCE", sight unseen, and read it in grateful gulps. Despite some odd little carelessnesses of syntax, the mood and flavor of the stories enthralled me (living as I do in LA, the setting of Rawley's meditations). I'm sad to report that the eagerly-awaited novel "NIGHT BIRD CANTATA", is a big disappointment after the heady excitement of the short stories. The novel wasn't really Rawley's ideal format - he was/is too galvanized, too involved in the precisions of the moment, to sustain a long narrative. Experience hits him in explosive chunks, and his strength is in the art of immediacy. I actually feel a little embarassed at the memory of insisting that a total stranger should buy and read "CANTATA", when the hapless guy, browsing at my local bookstore, asked if I could recommend anything - I was so enthralled by "SLOW DANCE" I was certain the novel would be as good - I hadn't read it at the time I recommended it - there's a lesson to be learned there .... what is saddest about reading Rawley lies in the awareness that he is no longer physically with us. God rest him, and may he be secure in the knowledge that in "SLOW DANCE ON THE FAULT LINE", at least, he created a work of art that will survive the years and that continues to ripple in ever-widening circles in the consciousness of its happy readers. May he not be one whose name is writ in water.

An Impressive First Novel.......1999-02-25

From the opening paragraph (above) of The Night Bird Cantata (1998) by Donald Rawley, readers will know they have entered a magical world of wonderful writing. Filled with metaphor and simile, The Night Bird Cantata is the fictional memoir of the summer in 1968 that L.P. (short for Lindsay Paul) spends with his grandmother's black maid in Phoenix. Separated from his mother who has had the "scent of a man drifting through" her "hair for almost six months," and who has married "a timid Irishman" named Bob Rafferty, L.P. finds himself shipped off to "the wrong side of the tracks" in a segregated city where "colored people lived south of the Gila River, a dry, shabby canal, only good for floods." At the age of ten, L.P. spends "three months of days whose clarity is both perverse and frightening, held without photographs or postcards or any other telling semblance to prove I existed, there, in Phoenix in 1968, and that I survived." Kept away from his real dad because "he isn't a nice man. he's a liar and he hits people," L.P.'s mother has remarried because L.P. isn't "masculine enough." "Besides," his mother adds, "I'm pretty sure I love him." L.P. stays with his grandmother's maid, Betty, who once cared for Errol Flynn's son and "played in a band in the late thirties" and is still known to raise her voice in song in church-- if she is sober enough while his mother is on her honeymoon. L.P.'s summer is filled with new discoveries. L.P. gets to be a kid, climb trees, dive into catfish holes dreaming "it was an ocean. Chinese junks were drifting by. There were steamships in the distance. I knew somehow that this canal led west to the ocean. That if I had to, I could swim until I reached the Pacific." L.P. goes to church with Betty and Frank, her husband, realizing he is "the only white boy there. And I liked it. It made me special." Summer is also for going bowling with Betty, her friends, and two boys that L.P. befriends, Samuel and Grover. It is also a summer in which L.P. goes without hearing from his mother for a month. "Sometimes I cried, but by July I began not to care. A clarity had enveloped my legs and arms. My heart followed." It is also during the summer of 1968 that L.P. learns about death and grieving.

Running throughout The Night Bird Cantata are two major focuses. One has to do with L.P.'s effeminate nature and the gender confusion which plagues him. In fact, throughout the book he suffers the taunts of his peers for his mannerisms and looks and he wishes that he was a girl, fantasizing about growing up and becoming a beautiful woman like his idol, Sophia Loren. Another theme that runs throughout the book is the fact that L.P. believes he is unloved. Unfortunately, this proves to be true. With the exception of Betty, adults have tolerated L.P. at best, if they haven't openly rejected him. The Night Bird Cantata is such a beautifully written, lyrical novel that readers will be shocked when these two on-going focuses of the novel run up against stark realism. L.P.'s near sexual encounter with a fifteen year old boy -- an incident which L.P. declares is life altering for him-- will startle and stun readers. But as surprising and explicit as that scene is, it cannot compare to the painfully horrid tirade of hate and revulsion that L.P. overhears spilling from his own mother's mouth about him to his grandmother. It is a scene of horror that no child should ever be exposed to and readers will not help but be moved.

It is clear that at the end of The Night Bird Cantata, that L.P., like the night bird of the book's title, has fallen from the nest and that the night is filled with silence. Readers are left with the hope that this ten year old boy who, throughout the novel has been given keen powers of perception well beyond his years, will fashion for himself a life worth living that is filled with strength and love-- two qualities his childhood certainly are without. Then the singing will be able to start up again. The Night Bird Cantata is an impressive first novel. Readers of this little work filled with so much beauty, truth, tragedy, and spirit are bound to find themselves looking forward to future work from Donald Rawley.

Too much "prose", not enough story.......1999-01-11

I generally love "coming of age" stories. The problem with this one is I had a hard time trying to find the story through all the contrived language that I assume the author intended to be deep and full of profound insight. Toward the end of the book, the story's young protagonist proclaims: "I tried to sound mysterious."

Too bad the author did, too.

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Fantastic Read for the New Year!

Impressive debut novel by a frequent contributor to NPR.

Not a masterpiece but it's okay

Too many critics

Excellent Young Writer

Night Journey: A Novel
Murad Kalam
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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Binding: Hardcover

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Not since Richard Wright's Native Son has the education of a young man been rendered as daringly, defiantly, and emotionally galvanizingly as in Murad Kalam's Night Journey.

Night Journey is the story of Eddie Bloodpath, beautiful, oversized, awkward child of South Phoenix's Third Ward. Hefty and handsome, quiet and strong like his long-lost father, Eddie is the good son, seemingly immune to the powerful pull of the streets. His older brother, Turtle -- a frail, stuttering, grammar school dropout who was born to hustle -- isn't convinced that Eddie will stay out of trouble. Acting on instinct, Turtle plucks Eddie from the brink of the urban abyss and delivers him to the boxing gym.

A perpetual innocent and reluctant pugilist, Eddie is adopted by a rogues' gallery of melancholy prizefighters, artful hustlers, strung-out mystics, pubescent crack lords, and drunken burnouts. He falls in love with Tessa, a hauntingly beautiful prostitute with whom he shares an unspeakable secret. Waiting in the wings is Marchalina, Eddie's high school crush, a privileged, bookish, North Phoenix girl who could save him from his worst instincts.

When a senseless murder and its aftermath send Eddie running from the sun-washed landscape of the American Southwest, he tries to fight his way to safety -- first in Chicago, at the national amateur competition, and then in the surreal underworld of Las Vegas professional boxing. Rushing pell-mell toward manhood, Eddie must discover where his true allegiances lie.

An American odyssey, Night Journey is a first novel equally remarkable for its raw power and wise empathy, borne up by Murad Kalam's unshakable belief in the ultimate grace of humanity.

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Fantastic Read for the New Year!.......2006-01-20

"Night Journey" is a fascinating book. I didn't know what to expect simply from the book title, but I was drawn in instantly after reading the first chapter. The description of the characters, scenes, and emotions was crafted with such charisma and skill. I often felt like I was a silent character in the book watching as the plot unfolded. I recommend this book to anyone interested in a great read.

Impressive debut novel by a frequent contributor to NPR........2006-01-02

Night Journey is both an impressive debut novel, and an intriguing, modern addition to the genre of "coming of age" novels. Much like Richard Wright, Kalam is able to write about so-called undesirable members of society with unparalled complexity and lyricism. Kalam demonstrates a great deal of promise in this novel, and is definitely an author to watch. As an additional introduction to Kalam's work, I highly recommend the 2005 edition of Best American Travel Writing, which includes a captivating article that Kalam wrote about his hajj experience. Additionally, the author's website, muradkalam.com, has links to several of his NPR commentaries.

Not a masterpiece but it's okay.......2005-10-08

This book encompasses a new version of an old theme. In many ways, it has a little bit of everything in it, enough for most readers to sink their eyes into. The main character reveals aspects of ourselves which enables the reader to build a stronger connection to the story. It's not the best book but it gives a worthwhile effort based on what it set out to accomplish. The prose is passable and does not detract from an understanding of what's going on. Thankfully, the author didn't try to overwhelm the reader with ten-dollar words so that you'd need an MIT degree to figure things out. The author does a good job setting up the plot but didn't thoroughly probe into the characters' motivations and psyches. Overall, this book is an interesting read, even if one isn't particularly interested in the underlying subject matter.

Too many critics .......2005-10-04

Critics all said this book was a great debut. This book was full of let downs. The author has a lot of talent, which is evident in his ability to show rather than tell. However, the plot was "like" Ralph Ellison only because the Kulam is trying to be Ellison. The plot was full of build-ups with no real climaxes in my opinion. It even smelled like Invisible Man without the real big climaxes and social commentary. I just can't say I enjoyed reading this book.

Excellent Young Writer.......2004-12-15

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, which describes people, places, and events completely outside anything I have ever (or will ever for that matter) experience. I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a gripping story.

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·Detailed appendices feature complete info for all items and weapons.
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