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Published annually, this comprehensive software product provides over 2700 questions and solutions along with guidelines, explanations, tips and diagnostic feedback covering all four sections of the CPA examination. This software is the most effective system available to prepare for the CPA exam. Version 9.0 is also completely updated to correlate with the new computerized exam!

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General Motors chairman Alfred P. Sloan was the ultimate organization man: he rose to the top of the auto industry after pioneers like Henry Ford built it, and then he transformed it with innovative management practices that today are studied and copied by business executives everywhere. In Sloan Rules, University of New Mexico historian David Farber describes how Sloan led his company to "economic greatness" between the 1920s and '40s, particularly by developing "a loose economic model in which highly rationalized corporate productivity combined with relentless marketing creates a mass consumer society that, in turn, produces the greatest good for the greatest number of people." Surprisingly little is known about Sloan's personal life--he was an intensely private man--but in this biography Farber provides a good overview of what made Sloan such an outstanding businessman. He also recounts Sloan's contentious relationship with Franklin Delano Roosevelt: "To Sloan, the New Deal was a raw deal." (At one point, the chairman even described the New Dealers as "ancient Asiatic despots.") Farber clearly wishes his subject had concerned himself more with social justice, but he also points out that Sloan's energy and creativity made it possible for a subsequent GM chairman to say, with some if not complete credibility, that what's good for GM is good for America. --John J. Miller

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Alfred P. Sloan Jr. became the president of General Motors in 1923 and stepped down as its CEO in 1946. During this time, he led GM past the Ford Motor Company and on to international business triumph by virtue of his brilliant managerial practices and his insights into the new consumer economy he and GM helped to produce. Bill Gates has said that Sloan's 1964 management tome, My Years with General Motors, "is probably the best book to read if you want to read only one book about business." And if you want to read only one book about Sloan, that book should be historian David Farber's Sloan Rules.

Here, for the first time, is a study of both the difficult man and the pathbreaking executive. Sloan Rules reveals the GM genius as not only a driven manager of men, machines, money, and markets but also a passionate and not always wise participant in the great events of his day. Sloan, for example, reviled Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal; he firmly believed that politicians, government bureaucrats, and union leaders knew next to nothing about the workings of the new consumer economy, and he did his best to stop them from intervening in the private enterprise system. He was instrumental in transforming GM from the country's largest producer of cars into the mainstay of America's "Arsenal of Democracy" during World War II; after the war, he bet GM's future on renewed American prosperity and helped lead the country into a period of economic abundance. Through his business genius, his sometimes myopic social vision, and his vast fortune, Sloan was an architect of the corporate-dominated global society we live in today.

David Farber's story of America's first corporate genius is biography of the highest order, a portrait of an extraordinarily compelling and skillful man who shaped his era and ours.

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Great insight into the mind of a great strategist........2005-03-19

Mr. Faber has done a great job of puting together Alfred Sloan story, in a way that Mr. Sloan, himself, would accept as a balanced biography (although I think he wouldn't like to be so exposed in public!!!)

Many concepts that today are taken for granted as part of the tools available to the professional manager, were actually part of the ideas used by Mr. Sloan to guide GM into leadership of the Automobile Market. Mr. Faber has done a superb job of presenting these concepts in the context of history and the people with whom Mr.Sloan built GM. The story is so good that may inspire today's managers into action.

Faber does a very interesting analysis trying to understand the mind of Mr. Sloan, specially in his relations with the Roosevelt Administration during the New Deal and Second World War. Today it would be more difficult for people in general to accept some of the positions Mr. Sloan had taken in this period.

One point to be remembered is that today the record of successful mergers is dismal. Mr Sloan major contribution was taking General Motors,in the early 1920s, an amalgam of deals put together by Durant, which were in a state of disarray and puting together a rational and effective organization. To do this Mr. Sloan was brilliant by using concepts like market segmentation, descentralization, corporate control, productivity/efficiency control...he was a true strategist. Due to the lack of records, it would be impossible for the author to describe the details of the implementation of this great task done by Mr Sloan.

Great read, essential reading for anyone that wants to understand the ways of Big Business...

Uncovering a Man of Mystery.......2003-04-19

The frustrating thing for biographers writing about Alfred P. Sloan is the paucity of information about what made the man tick. Sloan was meticulously careful not to leave material which would provide insight into his personal life, his thoughts, or his motivations. Instead, Sloan was careful to manage information in such a way that his persona as the supremely rational corporate leader was maintained. David Farber understands that people are more complex, and he offers tantalizing hints into Sloan's motivations. Farber focuses on two important chapters in Sloan's career--his crucial role in the stabilizing of General Motors, the creation of the quixotic Billy Durant, and the impact of the New Deal on corporate America, specifically GM. As for the first, Farber details Sloan's career development after his graduation from MIT and after his father secured a position for him with Hyatt Roller Bearing Company. Hyatt's relationship with GM led Sloan to that company at a crucial point, when the DuPont family had secured their investment by forcing out Billy Durant. Sloan seemed the opposite of Durant, making decisions in a supremely rational way and focusing on the bottom line. Symbolic of this is Sloan's decision to place each car in the GM line to appeal to particular income levels. So is his development of a master plan for GM, which ultimately led the corporation to unprecedented profitability, even during the Depression.

It was the Depression and the New Deal that brought Sloan's attitude into fairly direct conflict with the likes of Franklin Roosevelt, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, and labor leader John L. Lewis. Farber is clearly disappointed in the almost total lack of social consciousness exhibited by Sloan. Sloan could never understand why anyone would have a problem with the ways GM treated its production workers.

Farber has written a spare yet remarkably helpful book that is about both a man and a period in American history. Even though so little information exists about Sloan the man, Farber makes it evident that the tragedy of Sloan's life was that he never understood his own limitations. Like many rich people (he once shouted to Frances Perkins, "I am Alfred P. Sloan! I am worth seventy million dollars!"), Sloan believed himself entitled to have his way. He simply did not believe that he could be wrong. Not in anything. General Motors is still recovering from Sloan's hubris. Decades of shoddy products (Farber gives GM products more credit than I, a former owner of three Buicks each of which was worse than the last), foolish responses to criticism, failed attempts at reorganization, and similar episodes in the post-Sloan years have led GM to the point at which the new president, Bob Lutz, is more like Billy Durant. Historical irony prevails.

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Sloan Rules: Alfred P. Sloan and the Triumph of General Motors
David R. Farber
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International Banking Regulation and Supervision: Change and Transformation in the 1990s is based on a conference which was held in Taipei on 22--24 June 1994. It represents a tightly coordinated and edited collection of scholarly and highly practical chapters prepared by leading experts on banking law. Important changes are taking place in the financial sectors in the Pacific Rim; vital roles are being played by Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taipei. This volume deals with the broad policy issues entailed in the liberalization and deregulation of the banking industry and is divided into two parts. Part I covers Liberalization and the Search for an Appropriate Banking Law Model, and Part II deals with Convergence of Supervisory Standards of International Banking. This collection, which was designed as a broad foundation for comparative analysis of changes and reforms occurring worldwide in international banking regulation and practice, will be an invaluable aid to all domestic and international government officials, executives of banking and other financial institutions, professionals (attorneys, accountants and other advisers) representing such institutions and academics, in trying to understand both policies and practicalities reflected by these rapid changes and reforms. A separate, but related, companion volume on international banking operations and practices has also been produced, entitled International Banking Operations and Practices: Current Developments, which deals with the relevant legal questions regarding the changing international financial practices.

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This is the first book to present the fascinating new results on the largest fractal structures in the universe. It guides the reader, in a simple way, to the frontiers of astronomy, explaining how fractals appear in cosmic physics, from our solar system to the megafractals in deep space. It also offers a personal view of the history of the idea of self-similarity and of cosmological principles, from Plato's ideal architecture of the heavens to Mandelbrot's fractals in the modern physical cosmos. In addition, this invaluable book presents the great fractal debate in astronomy (after Luciano Pietronero's first fractal analysis of the galaxy universe), which illustrates how new concepts and deeper observations reveal unexpected aspects of Nature.

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Fractals Begin to Come of Age.......2006-04-24

I am sure that most of us have been intrigued and inspired by those remarkable geometric shapes called fractals. It is now 45 years since the Polish-born French mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot introduced the world to fractal geometry, the mathematical study of those beautiful and bizarre structures that have become the staple of much modern art and adorn millions of computer screens. Although the actual word "fractal" first made its appearance in 1975.

Fractals are objects that are rough or irregular, but can be broken down into parts. And each part is similar to the original object.

I have been following the development of fractal theory for the last thirty years, not as a mathematician or artist, but as someone who has had a deep intuition that these objects have deep significance for our understanding of many physical and biological dynamics.

This well-written book begins with a lengthy historical review of basic concepts in astronomy and cosmogony. Astronomy was one of those all-consuming hobbies that stayed with me throughout early adolescence, so it was good to return to those heady days.

But then we get into the real meat of the book: the discovery of the largest fractal structures in the universe, and an explanation about how fractals appear in cosmic physics, from our solar system all the way to the mega-fractals in deep space. These fractals structures appear to provide powerful new evidence for the emerging theories of interaction, implying that everything in the Universe is interconnected, and no one thing can be examined without considering its context in time and space.

This is a book that could be read with pleasure by anyone interested in alternative ways of viewing our Universe. These cosmic fractals may turn out to have considerable practical importance for us.

I recommend this to anyone interested in learning more about some of the cutting edge science that is helping inform us about the nature of physical reality.

GREAT DISCOVERIES.......2003-03-17

The book Discovery of Cosmic Fractals by Yurij Baryshev and Pekka Teerikorpi describes the yet unexplored fractal structure of the universe, which is hard to handle in the big bang theory. The idea of self-similarity is much deeper than it looks, suggesting a universe made of self-defined and hence fractal (self-similar) 3D spiral interactions as it is argued in the book THEORY OF INTERACTION The Simplest Explanation of Everything by Eugene Savov. The comic fractals can be viewed as just another convincing confirmation of the emerging theory of interaction. These two books and also James Gleick's CHAOS Making a New Science are harbingers of a qualitatively new, singularity free and complete understanding of the universe. That is why I highly recommend these essential books to everybody interested in the puzzles of nature.

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Chaos Theory is a synonym for dynamical systems theory, a branch of mathematics. Dynamical systems come in three flavors: flows (continuous dynamical systems), cascades (discrete, reversible, dynamical systems), and semi-cascades (discrete, irreversible, dynamical systems). Flows and semi-cascades are the classical systems iuntroduced by Poincare a centry ago, and are the subject of the extensively illustrated book: "Dynamics: The Geometry of Behavior," Addison-Wesley 1992 authored by Ralph Abraham and Shaw. Semi- cascades, also know as iterated function systems, are a recent innovation, and have been well-studied only in one dimension (the simplest case) since about 1950. The two-dimensional case is the current frontier of research. And from the computer graphcis of the leading researcher come astonishing views of the new landscape, such as the Julia and Mandelbrot sets in the beautiful books by Heinz-Otto Peigen and his co-workers. Now, the new theory of critical curves developed by Mira and his students and Toulouse provide a unique opportunity to explain the basic concepts of the theory of chaos and bifurcations for discete dynamical systems in two-dimensions. The materials in the book and on the accompanying disc are not solely developed only with the researcher and professional in mind, but also with consideration for the student. The book is replete with some 100 computer graphics to illustrate the material, and the CD-ROM contains full-color animations that are tied directly into the subject matter of the book, itself. In addition, much of this material has also been class-tested by the authors. The cross-platform CD also contains a software program called ENDO, which enables users to create their own 2-D imagery with X-Windows. Maple scripts are provided which give the reader the option of working directly with the code from which the graphcs in the book were

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This workshop provided a stimulating forum for the exchange of scientific information among the diverse areas of plasma physics, atomic physics, and chemistry, which study the fundamental properties and applications of non-neutral plasmas. Topics included are: antimatter plasmas, fluid and kinetic studies, collective modes, transport studies, charged particle beams, and strongly coupled plasmas.

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Until the phone calls came at three o'clock on a November morning, the Golds and their neighbors, the Hartes, had been inseparable. It was no surprise to anyone when their teenage children, Chris and Emily, began showing signs that their relationship was moving beyond that of lifelong friends. But now seventeen-year-old Emily is dead—shot with a gun her beloved and devoted Chris pilfered from his father's cabinet as part of an apparent suicide pact—leaving two devastated families stranded in the dark and dense predawn, desperate for answers about an unthinkable act and the children they never really knew.

From New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult—one of the most powerful writers in contemporary fiction—comes a riveting, timely, heartbreaking, and terrifying novel of families in anguish and friendships ripped apart by inconceivable violence.

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Good Book.......2007-08-30

Jodi Picoult is and excellent author. I enjoy her books. This book could have used a bit more development of Emily's character. I felt like I wanted to know Emily better through out the book.

Disappointed.......2007-08-17

I agree with other reviewers who were disappointed with this book. Although it was beautifully written, I felt cheated, ripped off, and let down at the end. The plot was not sufficiently developed through to the end. There were too many blanks to be filled in, too many loose ends, too much left unsaid and undone. There was far too much drama and not enough substance. I think it's fine to leave a few things in an ambiguous state at the end of a novel, to leave something to the reader's imagination, but c'mon, Picoult, FINISH THIS BOOK! Also, the storyline and dialogue during the trial got tedious and ridiculous. Was I, as the reader, supposed to feel any sympathy for Chris? I surely did not.

Awful.......2007-08-14

I am so disappointed after finishing this book. None of my questions were answered and not in the good way where it's left to your imagination. The characters are superficial. We never get beneath the surface with any of them and least of all Emily. I feel I knew Emily the least and that is the character I really wanted, and felt I should, know deep down. So many aspects are hard to believe. I really wanted to like this book and thought I did while I was reading it but for it to be so heart wrenching and then come out with nothing is really frustrating!

Doesn't Live Up To Potential.......2007-08-13

I'm a Jodi Picoult fan, and I've enjoyed all her books. The Pact is my least favorite.

It is captivating, as the others are. I read this book in two days, waiting for a fuller development and conclusion. I like the Then/Now format Ms. Picoult used. Overall, though, this story never came up to my expectations.

I know a great deal about Chris, but Emily's character wasn't developed fully enough. I want to know exactly what her motivations were. I kept expecting to see other secrets revealed about her family. They weren't there.

The ending disappointed me. It felt unrealistic and contrived.

Can NOT put this one down!.......2007-07-12

Picoult writes an amazing story of two childhood friends who become romantically involved as teenagers. A pact links the two even after one of them commits suicide.

Although it is written to perfection, it is painfully hard to read as a mother. The reality of not knowing your children as well as you think you do is upsetting but eye opening. This is another one of Jodi Picoult's must reads.

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hard to put down!
The last of Picoult's books for me
Character flaws taint "love story"
Disturbing, Compelling, Couldn't Put it Down...

The Pact: A Love Story (P.S.)
Jodi Picoult
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Release Date: 2006-02-21

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From Jodi Picoult, one of the most powerful writers in contemporary fiction, comes a riveting, timely, heartbreaking, and terrifying novel of families in anguish -- and friendships ripped apart by inconceivable violence. Until the phone calls came at 3:00 A.M. on a November morning, the Golds and their neighbors, the Hartes, had been inseparable. It was no surprise to anyone when their teenage children, Chris and Emily, began showing signs that their relationship was moving beyond that of lifelong friends. But now seventeen-year-old Emily has been shot to death by her beloved and devoted Chris as part of an apparent suicide pact -- leaving two devastated families stranded in the dark and dense predawn, desperate for answers about an unthinkable act and the children they never really knew.

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thought I would never get through this book........2007-10-06

This was my first Jodi Picoult book, and may be my last. I felt like I was climbing up a steep hill, never to reach the top. The book starts out with a murder ?, suicide ?, and goes downhill from there. Tedious trial, and many unanswered questions. Why was this teenage girl so miserable and unhappy? Some hints of abuse, but nothing is clear or validated. Her parents were clueless. Depressing story, with really no answers, not a romantic love story.

hard to put down!.......2007-09-28

This was the first Jodi Picoult book that I had read and I was overall very pleased. It is the type of book, that is extemely hard to put down. The book's set up makes the reader feel as if he or she is a detective, trying to gather clues to figure out the case. The characters in the book are the type people, one would run into on a daily basis, making the book easy to relate to. Although, I did enjoy reading the book, I was extremely dissappointed by the ending. I felt as though Picoult left the reader hanging with more questions and I wanted more answers. Overall, I would suggest this book to anyone who is looking for a book that keeps one's attention, and likes the aspect of trying to figure out a crime.

The last of Picoult's books for me.......2007-09-25

This is the fourth book by this author that I have read and I must say it will be the last. They all have been disappointing

Jody Picoult's books follow a formula: the controversial/shocking theme; the lawyers; the jail/prison (she dwells too much on this area) and the twisty, contrived endings.

Enough.

Character flaws taint "love story".......2007-09-16

The Golds and Hartes are neighbors, good friends, and absolutely thrilled when their children Emily and Chris fall in love. The teens are inseparable, but when Emily is found dead of a gunshot wound to the head, Chris is charged with her murder. He says it was a suicide pact that he was unable to complete. His trial and the disintegration of the Golds and Hartes' friendship ensue.

The rest of this review deals with characters' actions, so it's a bit spoiler-ish and you may not want to read this review if you only know the basics of what this book is about. (I don't spoil the ending below, though).

This was my first Jodi Picoult book, and I got wrapped up in the story right away. When I finished it, though, there were many things about the main characters that bother me and kind of make it hard for me to give this book a 4 or 5-star rating.

It frankly is just very hard to swallow that Chris would not only fail to tell anyone about Emily's suicidal thoughts, but also that he would assist her and bring the gun to the carousel, all the time hoping that he would be able to "stop" her. That, even though he had been unable to convince her for the weeks or months to drop this plan, maybe in the last moment he might be able to say a magic word that would all of a sudden change her mind. Though I absolutely love her writing, the thing with some of Jodi Picoult's characters is that they have to do absolutely stupid things to get into the situations they get into, and it is hard to sympathize with the protagonist when they've just behaved with no wisdom or reason. It is hard to buy the story when the character's actions are plot-driven and not character-driven. As others have said, Chris seems to be reasonable and responsible in most other ways.

It is also hard to sympathize with Chris when he is pressuring a hesitant Emily to have sex with him. I am just not feeling the love of this "love story," as the book is sub-titled, when the boy pressures the girl to sleep with him, the girl sees the boy as more of a brother or cousin than a lover, and the boy does nothing to help the girl when she's suicidal except eventually contribute to her actually succeeding in the suicide. I do not see that as romantic or something that involves actual love. Ultimately, maybe Emily felt she was better off dead, but the disaster she left behind showed that she selfishly had little care for what her suicide would do to anyone else, least of all Chris.

That being said, Picoult is such a good writer, and she definitely deserves kudos for the topics she tackles. I think she did a good job of showing different sides to teen suicide. Chris was just a protagonist I found hard to sympathize with.

Disturbing, Compelling, Couldn't Put it Down..........2007-09-13

This is the fourth book I have read by Jodi Picoult. So far, they have all been heart wrenching, insightful, thought provoking and compelling reads. Ms. Picoult has a way of getting inside the mind of her characters, especially the teenagers. I think one reason some people have problems with her plots or the actions of her characters (as some have said in this book) is that you really have to forget all of your adult feelings and go back to being a teenager. You have to go back to that time when acceptance was everything and you lived in the moment and each of those moments was so profound in your mind. As Emily states in this book, she sees herself now and she sees herself in ten years, but can't see how she can get from point A to point B.

This book takes on the issue of teen suicide. Parts of it are excruciating to read. Emily's thought processes seem illogical at times when filtered through the mind of an adult. At times I wanted to scream at her and tell her that wasn't the way to do it. This book makes us also wonder just how well we really do know our kids and reminds us that no matter how close we are to them, they do in fact have a life that is separate from us.

All in all, though parts are difficult to read, I highly recommend it, especially for parents of teenagers, and for teens themselves.

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Disappointing! Not up to Picoult's standards
Addicting
One of Picoult's best about love and tragic loss-A+++
Excellent Book
NOTE: SPOILER AHEAD! MY FAVE BOOK!

The Pact: A Love Story
Jodi Picoult
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Disappointing! Not up to Picoult's standards.......2007-03-21

What a disappointment. I've read everything published by Ms. Picoult and loved nearly all of it until this book. She fails to create a plausible picture of the factors compelling Em to be desperately suicidal, and why-oh-why wouldn't Chris try to get the woman he loves help? -- that is help to live, not to die? Unlike Picoult's usual work, The Pact is awkward and slow-moving, and the plot is full of holes. Too bad; not up to Picoult's standards.

Addicting.......2006-12-30

As a 19 year old Engineering student, I find free-time incredibly hard to come by, and when I do manage to have some... I'll admit, I often spend it watching brain-numbing television to recuperate.

I received this book as a birthday gift, and started reading it during a study-break, fully intending to get no more than possibly 30 pages through it, and THEN watch a little TV. However, once I started reading it, I literally couldn't put it down. I hear people say this about books all the time, but I've never truly experienced it.

This book began near the end of the actual story being told, and through a series of flash-backs relays a story that is so tragically heart-wrenching that I soon found myself addicted.

The reason that I couldn't stop reading was that because of the way the book was set up, I already knew how it ended; it was just a matter of finding out why and how. I found myself empathizing with the parents, because just as they were trying to come to grips with the reality of the tragic incident, so was I.

By the end of the book I still found myself wondering why that had to be the outcome. This book was by no means as satiating as someone who is expecting the 'answer-to-life' wants it to be, but I think that's the very nature of suicide - is there ever a situation where it truly HAS to be the solution?

I have recommended this book to all of my friends, and now I'm taking the time to recommend it here to anybody who enjoys angst, romance or just all-around well written stories. Enjoy!!

One of Picoult's best about love and tragic loss-A+++.......2006-11-09

This was one of those books that are hard to lay down. Picoult is one of my favorite authors and I don't think she knows how to write a bad story.

The Harte's (Nick's parents), and the Gold's, (Emily's parents), were neighbors and the very best of friends. Their children were practically born together just a few months apart from each other. And Nick and Emily were inseparable growing up. They were true soulmates. But things changed when Emily becomes pregnant with Chris's child, and she becomes depressed wanting to commit suicide. She is afraid to tell her parents for fear she won't be the perfect daughter that they expect of her. And she never does tell Chris, but instead wants him to help her plan her death. Of course this completely breaks Chris up, but rather then see Emily so miserable, he goes along with her-taking his father's gun out of the cabinet at home-loading it with 2 bullets. One for her, and then one for him. They go off to a secluded place where they've always gone, and Chris carries the gun, but still tries to fight Emily out of it. She grabs the gun out of his hand, and with her finger on the trigger, the gun goes off. Emily dies later at the hospital, and Chris though he gets hurt, lives.

This event happens on a Friday night, when both families usually eat out, which they were doing when this happened. But they had no idea until later when they each returned home and got a phone call in the middle of the night of the terrible tragedy had taken place.

The story from there is that Chris of course gets the blame. Later he is arrested and put in jail until the trial. He is out of his mind the whole time, trying to remember exactly what happened. Whether he gets off or not remains to be seen until later in the book. His attorney, Jordan, goes to fight for him.

The families naturally split. Melanie and Augusta Chris's mom are no longer friends but bitter enemies. Melanie won't accept her daughter's death, and acts just as though she is still alive. Her hatred for Chris as well as his mother now is very real. But interestingly enough, Melanie's husband Michael, and Augusta begin having an affair. But that is short-lived as the two families move away and separate from each other later in this book.

Excellent Book.......2006-08-27

This is an excellent story, but it does get a little long. I got the audio cd because I was going on a long drive, but I would have preferred it in print because it takes longer to listen than to read.

NOTE: SPOILER AHEAD! MY FAVE BOOK!.......2006-08-05

OMG.
this is my favourite book at the moment.
i chanced it at my neighbourhood library after i saw jodi picoult's works being featured in the straits times,the local press here.

i lurve the pact to bits ends.
this is really indeed such a love story.
two teenagers who grew up together,practically inseparable since they were children,and later fall in love.the story started off with a big bang (no pun intended).The girl dies,and the boy,Chris, who fainted from shock,is now being charged for homicide and alleged murder.

The story now procedes.Did Chris,a star athlete and schloar killed his girlfriend? And before you knew it,dark secrets starts to appear.The girl,Emily is found to be pregnant.Chris's mother and Emily's father began a passionate harmless affair,as they found their other halves being either nonchalent or grieving throughout the ordeal.More dark truths were suddenly revealed.

Its a good book.Seriously,there were all loads of twists and stuff that you couldn't expect.But i won't and i can't reveal it all.Except for another one,Emily was molested as a kid by a janitor and that she thought being in a relationship with her best friend and neighbour Chris was like committing incest.Did Chris shot Emily,or was it like what he said,theirs was a suicide pact? WAS EMILY suicidal all along?

Well well,coveting a neighbour's wife,teenage pregnancy,angst and sheer emotional torture,as well as an intense court trial,this is a really good book.I'm not surprised it a Hollywood adaptation of the book (heard there is one) will be a blockbuster.

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Jodi Picoult
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The Pact A Love Story.......2007-09-09

All I can say is that this book is easily one of the best that I have ever read its got everything love,mystery,hate,truth,blame and it definatly has its share of twists and turns so buy it read it and keep reading it because this book will become part of your soul and stay with you forever Jodi Picoult has a gift when it comes to looking into the souls of her charectors so read get lost in the world of Chris and Emily and let this book become a part of you

The Devil, Delfina Varela and the Used Chevy : Which Examines Delfina Varela's Puzzling Pact with the Devil, the Plaintive Love Story of Ruiz Lopez Mondragon, & the Doomed Hispanic Political Dream of Manuel Caballos

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The Devil, Delfina Varela and the Used Chevy : Which Examines Delfina Varela's Puzzling Pact with the Devil, the Plaintive Love Story of Ruiz Lopez Mondragon, & the Doomed Hispanic Political Dream of Manuel Caballos
Louie G. Robinson
Manufacturer: Doubleday
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000Q7VXWG

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The Pact - A Love Story
Jodi Picoult
Manufacturer: Harper-perennial
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000SV626M

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PACT: A LOVE STORY
JODI PICOULT
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000O5VW7G

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