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what is the best reccommended cruise leaving New york or philly for carribean?
We have 2 kids ,ages8 and 11, boys, and want a carib. cruise, leaving east coast-no airfare needed. first timers.
the royal carribean cruise is best known but there are many other Cruises In summer On the 15th and 16th both the travel channel has bradcast a very informativeprogramme about these cruises.you could buy the CDs …………bon vovage
Carnival Cruise feb 6 2011 Departing from Florida
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Unsinkable: A Memoir $10.55 Unsinkable is the definitive memoir by film legend and Hollywood icon Debbie Reynolds.Actress, comedienne, singer, and dancer Debbie Reynolds shares the highs and lows of her life as an actress during Hollywood’s Golden Age, anecdotes about her lifelong friendship with Elizabeth Taylor and her experiences as the foremost collector of Hollywood memorabilia, and intimate details of her marriages a… |
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Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape $6.00 Jenna Miscavige Hill, niece of Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige, was raised as a Scientologist but left the controversial religion in 2005. In Beyond Belief, she shares her true story of life inside the upper ranks of the sect, details her experiences as a member Sea Org—the church’s highest ministry, speaks of her “disconnection” from family outside of the organization, and tells th… |
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Frommer’s Maine Coast (Frommer’s Complete Guides) $9.06 Completely updated, Frommer’s Maine Coast features in-depth coverage of the sights and experiences that await you.As a longtime New Englander, our author hits all the highlights, from the mountains of Acadia National Park to outlet shops and beaches of Maine’s southern coast. He’s checked out all the best hotels and restaurants in person, and offers authoritative, candid reviews that will help you… |
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ZAGG invisibleSHIELD for HTC Touch Cruise 1 Pack-Screen Protectors-Retail Packaging-Transparent $4.99 ZAGG’s invisibleSHIELD is an exceptionally clear and virtually indestructible film that will protect your iPhone 4 from unsightly scratches. Our exclusive, patented film – with nano-memory technology – covers and shields your device, keeping it as pristine as the day you took it out of the box. Maximum coverage protects the entire device. Full body coverage protects the front screen and back. Scre… |
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Zagg HTCCRUFB invisibleSHIELD for HTC Touch Cruise – Full Body – 1 Pack – Retail Packaging – Transparent Clear $16.99 The invisibleSHIELD – ZAGG’s customized, patented flagship product is tough. Created from a resilient film that was first used to protect U.S. Military helicopter blades from high-speed damage, the invisibleSHIELD is your personal electronics defender. This rugged film wraps around consumer electronics and keeps them functioning and looking great, just like the day they came out of the box. Featur… |
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ZAGG invisibleSHIELD for HTC Touch Cruise 2009 – Screen $16.99 Your search for a Cell Phone/Smart Phone case, skin, or cover is now over. ZAGG’s invisibleSHIELD is an exceptionally clear and virtually indestructible film that will protect any Cell Phone or Smart Phone from unsightly scratches. Our exclusive, patented film – with nano-memory technology – covers and shields your device, keeping it as pristine as the day you took it out of the box. The precision… |
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Mercenaries $19.99 Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction is a revolutionary third person action-shooter game, set in the near future and inspired by real world events. A military leader stages a coup just as North and South Korea are preparing to unify, turning that region’s political situation into violent chaos. As diplomacy fails, this new dictator threatens the world with nuclear war. The world’s nations put an… |
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H2O Plus Bath Aquatics Natural Spring Shampoo $14.00 This is a full-size version of Aquatics shampoo found at Walt Disney World Resorts® and Disney Cruise Line®. In our signature natural spring scent, this extra-gentle daily shampoo is fortified with watercress, Iceland moss and seaweed to leave hair clean and conditioned. (#999) Provides gentle daily cleansing without stripping or drying the hair and scalp while leaving hair full and shiny. Ligh… |
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Leaving $3.95 Winner of the Joseph Henry Jackson Award Pushcart Editors’ Prize Nominee In 1959, newly-widowed and pregnant Ruby Washington and her thirteen-year-old half brother, Easton, board a bus in rural South Carolina, destined for Oakland, California. There, far from the violent events that forced her to flee her home, Ruby hopes to make a new life for her family. Ruby gives birth to a daughter, Lida, and strives to raise the girl and Easton. But as their Oakland neighborhood changes during the turbulent 1960s, the three are driven apart by forces that Ruby cannot control. Easton becomes involved with civil rights activism and the Black Panthers; Lida, keeping a hurtful family secret to herself, spirals into a cycle of dependency and denial. Finally, Lida’s sons Love LeRoy and Li’l Pit must fend for themselves in the inhospitable streets of America, leaving one city for another, searching for a home. Centered around three generations of a family and set against the larger dispossession of African Americans, "Leaving" is a blend of history and intimately-observed everyday life. A reader’s guide to "Leaving" can be found at http: //www.stmartins.com/smp/leavingrgg.html. |
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Dream Cruises $18.46 Tips for Booking Trips on All Budgets-from $1,000 to $1,000,000 "Kavin compares cruise ships and yacht charters to showcase the biggest advantage of the latter: personalized comfort." -"Soundings" "Charter cruising comes in many flavors, from fully crewed luxury megayachts to pilot-your-own bareboats, and Kim Kavin has sampled just about all of them." -"Offshore" Say good-bye to lengthy security lines, overpriced pia coladas, and jam-packed shore excursions. Never again will your cruise vacation include jostling with crowds, squishing into a kiddie-filled swimming pool, or rushing back from a land tour in time for a pre-assigned dinner seating on a massive, impersonal ship. "Dream Cruises" introduces you to the joys of private yacht charter vacations, a fast-growing and often surprisingly affordable alternative to cruise ships. With charters, you get the whole boat for your family and friends, with a crew catering only to you, and you go wherever you choose-from Alaska to the South Pacific. Based on first-hand experience as well as advice and information from sixty charter-industry experts worldwide, "Dream Cruises" explains which kinds of yachts are available, where to book them, how to find a trustworthy broker, what you can expect to pay, and much more. Why book another cabin when you can have the whole boat for yourself? |
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Frommer’s Cruises & Ports of Call $3.46 Completely revised, "Frommer’s Cruises & Ports of Call "features photos of all the major ship classes that sail out of North American homeports. – You’ll also get up-to-the-minute coverage of all the lines servicing North America and the Caribbean, as well as in-depth ship coverage so you can choose the ship that’s best for you. – Our authors, longtime cruisers, hit all the major ports of call on the North American and Caribbean cruise routes, from Oahu and Vancouver to New York and St. Thomas. Their candid reviews will help you find the choices that suit your tastes and budget. |
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The World’s Most Intimate Cruises $3.95 This unique cruise ship guide features more than 130 small cruise ship profiles, including sailing ships and freighters. Destinations include both off-the-beaten-path cruises and popular ports of call, from the Caribbean islands to whale watching among Alaska’s glaciers, from sailing along the Gulf of Thailand’s coral reefs to European river wine cruises. "Small" cruise ships are the fastest-growing segment of the ever-expanding cruise market. This in-depth book is the only complete guide to the smaller ships, defined as those cruise ships ranging from barges that cruise the rivers and canals of Europe with as few as eight or ten passengers to cruise ships that hold five hundred. This book will help readers choose the cruise that’s right for them Intimate cruisers can go where the biggest ships can’t: they can meander down rivers and canals and provide up-close looks at oceanic life that the big ships can’t get near. Smaller ships can get to more remote places and specialize in exploring passengers’ horizons and opening up new cultural experiences. The small ships offer adventure cruises, educational cruises, and eco- and cultural cruises — and among the more than five million Americans cruising each year, more and more enthusiasts and first-timers are choosing these smaller, more intimate ships. Ship profiles include details of accommodations, shipboard activities and nightlife, destinations, and special features. The author tells readers how to obtain discounts, upgrades, and deals, and how to get the best cabin in every price range. There’s also terrific advice on what to pack, how to have a good shore excursion, medical needs, tipping, a typical day under sail, and so muchmore. |
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The Unofficial Guide to Cruises $3.95 From the publishers of The Unofficial Guide(R) to Walt Disney World(R) "A Tourist’s Best Friend " –Chicago Sun-Times "Indispensable" –The New York Times Five Great Features and Benefits offered ONLY by The Unofficial Guide(R) More than 100 cruise lines and 500 ships reviewed and ranked for value and quality Complete details on cruise lines, ships, and itineraries around the world Industry secrets for getting the lowest possible fare, plus extras like free vacation days Everything you need to know to make planning your cruise vacation fun and easy Helpful hints for getting the best cabin–without breaking your bank account |
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Alaska Cruises & Ports of Call $3.95 Cruising is the perfect way to see America’s last frontier–wildlife and wilderness abound along the state’s breathtaking coastline, and are easily seen from the comfort of a deck chair or observation lounge. Thoroughly updated every year (unlike the rest of the competition), "Frommer’s Alaska Cruises & Ports of Call" is a compact guide that’s on top of all the latest developments and offerings in the rapidly changing cruise industry. Our author, a leading cruise journalists with years of experience, has compiled candid, first-hand reviews of each cruise line and each ship. The easy-to-use ratings, detailed drawings of each ship, and honest evaluations make it easy for you to find the cruise that suits your budget and your personal style, whether you want a luxury liner with fine dining or a small-ship cruise led by serious naturalists. You’ll also find a nature guide that helps you understand what you’re seeing, complete with illustrations of glaciers and the various types of whales. We’ll show you how to get the best deals and how to maximize your time in the ports of call–all in one concise, pocket-sized volume. |
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Leaving Ireland $3.95 From the award-winning author of the acclaimed "Gracelin O’Malley" comes the breathtaking tale of a young mother’s journey from her homeland to a new life in America. |
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Leaving Wyoming $3.95 Gunfights, romance, cross-country chases, and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid-this modern Western has everything you could want from the genre, and a few twists. |
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Leaving Normal $3.95 Divorced and the mother of a college-bound daughter, Cassie, Natalie Goodwin prepares for her new life in the dating world. Just before Christmas, Natalie becomes friends with Tony Cruz, her neighbor from across the street who also found himself recently single. They hit it off, but Natalie’s refusal to have another child, which Tony desperately wants, puts a halt to their relationship–until her daughter comes home from school alone and pregnant, and gives them the opportunity to have everything they want |
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Leaving Gomorrah $22.79 Otis is a gay man who discovers he has a son from a one night affair. Now his son, Antonio, a young man in his twenties, has come to live with him. Everything is fine until Otis realizes that Antonio is living a secret life hustling his body. It’s a trade Otis is well aware of because he once lived that same life. Antonio, Otis’s son, feels he has been blessed with great sexual prowess. He doesn’t consider himself gay or bi-sexual, but he has used his ‘gift’ to dominate both men and women to get what he wants. But there is one thing he can’t get from sex, and that is peace of mind from the darkness that haunts him, the same darkness that haunted, and later destroyed his mother. Now Otis must fight to save Antonio from a life in the streets and from the darkness that haunts him. However, Otis has his own demons, and he finds that he must not only save his son’s life, but his own life as well. Leaving Gomorrah is the third and final book in the This Place of Men Trilogy. |
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Leaving Simplicity $3.46 "What if advertisements ruled the world?" Taylor and Barrett maybe cousins, but they’re from different worlds. Taylor lives in high-tech luxury, the daughter of top advertising specialists. Barrett was raised by his uncle in an ecocult called Simplicity. When his uncle dies, Barrett is whisked away to live with Taylor and her power parents. Barrett is deeply distressed by the "Chattering World." Here, invasive advertising screams out from improbable places- on the sides of cars, on the bathroom mirror, even on the shirts of his teachers. Taylor, on the other hand, loves it and wants her "farmie" cousin to embrace it, too. Barrett soon discovers that his aunt and uncle have a hidden agenda: there is a lotto gain from finding out the effects of advertising on an untouched mind. When Barrett’s worst suspicions are confirmed, only Taylor, and the horrible secrets he discovers about her family, can expose the truth. To do so, she must turn her back on everything she’s been raised to believe. Thrilling and thought-provoking, Leaving Simplicity takes readers into a wildly driven consumer society that seems only a heartbeat away from our own. |
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Leaving Europe $18.29 A unique blend of travel narrative and coming-of-age recollections, Leaving Europe traces Monique Hendricks’ thirty-year journey from Switzerland, where she was born, to the United States, with sojourns in England, Germany, Belgium and Iceland along the way. Each chapter follows Monique to a different country through the subjective lens of her experiences. The book also recounts the author’s troubled relationship with her father, from whom she tries to distance herself by moving away. Ten international relocations and one dissolved marriage later, will she find a place to call home? |
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Leaving Home $3.95 At twenty-six, Emma Roberts comes to the painful realization that if she is ever to become truly independent, she must leave her comfortable London flat and venture into the wider world. This entails not only breaking free from a claustrophobic relationship with her mother, but also shedding her inherited tendency toward melancholy. Once settled in a small Paris hotel, Emma befriends Fran?oise Desnoyers, a vibrant young woman who offers Emma a glimpse into a turbulent life so different from her own. In this exquisite new novel of self-discovery, Booker Prize-winner Anita Brookner addresses one of the great dramas of our lives: growing up and leaving home. |
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Leaving Fletchville $3.46 Brandon is the biggest and toughest kid in his small-town school. He is feared as a bully, but he only pretends to be "dumb as a bag of hammers," so he can learn as much as possible about the people around him. When Leon, his sister Winnie, and their lively little brother Sam, arrive in Kingsville, they are the only black people in town. Everyone is curious about them-where they came from, what their parents do-but when Brandon discovers the truth about their situation, he decides to do what he can to protect them from harm. |
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Leaving the World $3.95 From the bestselling author of The Woman in the Fifth and The Pursuit of Happiness comes a devastating new novel. Years after vowing to herself and her parents to never marry, have children and lead the resentful life they chose, Jane, now a Harvard professor, falls unexpectedly pregnant. Resolved as she’s been to childlessness, she begins to warm to the idea of motherhood, even with a partner who is increasingly absent. But a devastating turn of events takes the decision out of her hands in a way she could never have predicted. Her familiar world torn apart, Jane feels forced to leave her old life behind. She resigns from her job, cuts all ties with friends and family and moves to a place where no one will find her. Isolated, she feels she has finally succeeded in leaving her world. Yet when a young girl disappears, prompting a high-profile police investigation, Jane is drawn in. Convinced that the person at the heart of the case is much closer to her new community than anyone realises, she has to make a decision to either stay hidden or bring to light a shocking truth. "From the Hardcover edition." |
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Leaving Protection $18.45 When sixteen-year-old Robbie Daniels leaves Port Protection, Alaska, for the nearby fishing town of Craig, king salmon season is less than forty-eight hours away from starting without him. The few salmon fishermen who can afford to hire help have already found their deckhands, and time is running out on Robbie’s dream of fishing the open ocean for kings. A tip from a teacher puts Robbie on the trail of a legendary captain named Tor Torsen, but when Robbie boards Tor’s fishing troller without permission, he happens upon a piece of Russian history that Tor would do just about anything to hide. Then Tor surprises Robbie by hiring him on, but for reasons darker than Robbie ever could guess. Catching king salmon from dawn till dusk, Robbie thinks himself lucky — until he discovers his captain’s true intentions. Tor is searching along the coastline for historic metal plaques buried by early Russian explorers laying claim to Alaska. When Robbie finds out how valuable these possession plaques are, he fears he may know too much to survive. Tor’s wrath and a violent storm at sea put Robbie’s courage and wits to the ultimate test. |
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Leaving Tangier $14.75 From one of the worldas great writers, a breakthrough novel about leaving home for a better life In his new novel, award-winning, internationally bestselling author Tahar Ben Jelloun tells the story of a Moroccan brother and sister making new lives for themselves in Spain. Azel is a young man in Tangier who dreams of crossing the Strait of Gibraltar. When he meets Miguel, a wealthy Spaniard, he leaves behind his girlfriend, his sister, Kenza, and his mother, and moves with him to Barcelona, where Kenza eventually joins them. What they find there forms the heart of this novel of seduction and betrayal, deception and disillusionment, in which Azel and Kenza are reminded powerfully not only of where theyave come from, but also of who they really are. |
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Leaving Paradise $3.46 Nothing has been the same since Caleb Becker left a party drunk, got behind the wheel, and hit Maggie Armstrong. Even after months of painful physical therapy, Maggie walks with a limp. Her social life is nil and a scholarship to study abroad–her chance to escape everyone and their pitying stares–has been canceled.After a year in juvenile jail, Caleb’s free . . . if freedom means endless nagging from a transition coach and the prying eyes of the entire town. Coming home should feel good, but his family and ex-girlfriend seem like strangers. Caleb and Maggie are outsiders, pigeon-holed as "criminal" and "freak." Then the truth emerges about what really happened the night of the accident and, once again, everything changes. It’s a bleak and tortuous journey for Caleb and Maggie, yet they end up finding comfort and strength from a surprising source: each other. |
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Leaving Eden $3.95 "Leaving Eden" brilliantly brings to life that watershed moment in our history when man — and woman — turned their backs on the most ancient of laws in order to strike out in independence. Told from the point of view young Na’amah, Adam’s daughter by his first wife, Lilith, it tells of the passing of the ancient Goddess and the birth of the new God. |
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Leaving Unknown $3.95 "Sweet Lips, Tennessee . . . Toad Suck, Arkansas . . . Okay, Oklahoma . . . Truth or Consequences, New Mexico . . ." Maeve Connelly’s epic road trip is taking her through every colorfully named tiny town in America on her way to the far less imaginatively named Los Angeles, California. With her foulmouthed cockatiel, Oliver, her only companion, Maeve’s heading way off the beaten track with little money and a load of painful baggage she wants to leave behind. But when her beloved rattletrap, "Elsie," breaks down outside Unknown, Arizona, she finds herself taking a much longer rest stop than she anticipated. The only mechanic in the vicinity is on an indefinite walkabout, so Maeve’s in for the long haul–and she’ll need to find two jobs to pay for Elsie’s eventual repair. But she’s starting to feel strangely at home among the quirky denizens of Unknown–especially around her new bookstore owner boss–so Maeve is seriously considering saying good-bye to Hollywood for good . . . if she can keep her past troubles from coming to light. From Kerry Reichs, author of "The Best Day of Someone Else’s Life," comes a poignant and very funny new novel about finding yourself after finding yourself in the middle of nowhere. |
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The Leaving of Liverpool $3.95 On a cold February night in 1925, two teenage sisters, Mollie and Annemarie Kenny, escape from their home in a tiny Irish village. Their beloved mother has died and the girls have suffered shocking abuse at the hands of their doctor father. With sensitive, creative Annemarie so traumatized she can barely remember her name, Mollie decides they should make a new life for themselves and she takes her younger sister to Liverpool where they will board a ship to New York in search of safety But the smallest, cruelest twist of fate conspires to separate the girls just as the boat is about to sail, leaving Mollie stranded in Liverpool and Annemarie at the mercy of strangers in America. The subsequent paths of their lives could not be more different. Annemarie discovers her future, her fortune, and her raison d’etre on Broadway, while Mollie, devastated by guilt and grief at the loss of her sister, eventually carves out a life of family and hearth and home in Liverpool, a city of warmth and humor that she grows to love. As the 1920s make way for the Depression and the edgy 1930s, the coming of another war looms. The Second World War will separate many more people from their loved ones, but, as Mollie sees in the cheerful, stoical camaraderie of blitzed Liverpool, it can also bring people together. |
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Leaving the Land $44.94 The lives of Scotland natives Jim and Joey Rutherford spanned most of the twentieth century and encompassed great social and economic change. In this memoir, their daughter and author Anne Ewing provides a testament to her parents’ steadfastness to each other and to their family and friends.With humorous anecdotes, rich details, and photos, "Leaving the Land" shares the heritage of the Rutherfords, who were born during the First World War and married during the Second. From a very modest start, they built up their farming business over thirty-five years, always with an adventurous and enterprising approach. Their personalities combined the thrift and work ethic typical of their generation, with an openness of mind, generosity of spirit, and sense of humor not always associated with the Scottish character.Not only does "Leaving the Land" communicate one family’s legacy, but also provides insight into Scottish history and gives commentary on signs of the times such as the socioeconomic trends, the shift from rural to urban living, and the effects of two world wars and the Great Depression. It also serves as a remembrance of lives well lived in a time and place that will soon exist in memory only. |
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Leaving Gary $4.44 Rooted in the social activism of Vatican II, the civil rights and anti-war movements of the sixties, the poetry of John Sheehan is filled with keen observations of place, people, and time, where steel mills and sand dunes intersect with school children, overheard remarks, blues and jazz, where pumpkins sit beneath TV sets blaring the evening news. Written in a clear, almost conversational language, Leaving Gary jumps from a Houston of ice cream parlors and fried chicken in the twenties, to seminary life in Canada in the forties, and to teaching life today. It confronts issues of race and class, religion and landscape, memory and media, chronicling places which have disappeared and places we wish would disappear. After graduating from St. Michael’s College at the University of Toronto, John Sheehan was ordained a priest in 1948. He taught high school in Houston and Rochester before moving to Gary, Indiana in 1968 to teach in the public schools. He left the priesthood in 1969, married, and continued teaching in Gary until his retirement in 1987. In the 1980s, Sheehan joined the Chicago Poetry Ensemble, a group of writers who had a profound effect shaping performance poetry in Chicago and beyond. |
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Leaving Atlanta $3.95 It’s summer in Atlanta and black children are disappearing. By the time the heinous killing spree is over, 29 will be dead. This haunting menace provides the backdrop to the exquisitely evocative stories of three children fighting the everyday battles of adolescence: Tasha, who is coping with her parents’ separation and the sweet pain of a first crush on a tender boy; Rodney, who struggles to make friends and wants only to please his abusive father; and Octavia, who faces down the popular crowd at school and must straddle the line between protected and protective daughter. Ultimately, these individual stories reveal the loss of innocence that accompanies the passage from childhood to adulthood. |
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Leaving Pico $3.93 In the tradition of Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me, Ultima or Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony, poet Frank X. Gaspar has crafted a beautifully written coming-of-age-in-ethnic-America novel set in the Portuguese community of Provincetown, Massachusetts. For narrator Josie Carvalho, a single summer brings great loss and abrupt change, but also a new understanding of his place in the world. In the insular Portuguese fishing community of the Cape, Josie’s life has been shaped by the annual influx of summer tourists (who are largely oblivious of the locals), and his great aunt Theophila’s fervent if idiosyncratic Catholicism (she has visions and keeps a private shrine to the saints). The community is also sharply divided between the Picos like himself (whose ancestors hailed from the Azores) and the Lisbons (whose forebears came directly from the old country). The counterweight to these forces has been the boy’s relationship with his grandfather John Joseph, a drunk, clam-poaching old man who is nevertheless a sly and tricksterish master storyteller. Josie’s shaky religious faith receives a jolt when he prays that his unwed mother might find a husband, and a stranger named Carmine arrives from New Bedford and begins to call on her. His mother’s relationship with the Lisbon Carmine soon disrupts the family’s equilibrium and throws their lives into conflict. Josie finds himself divided in his loyalties and upset over what he fears is his responsibility for the trouble. His grandfather comes to his aid with a healing narrative, a magical act of storytelling that lifts him out of the present and into a heroic past. Over a series of nights, John Joseph, Scheherazade-like, spins the colorfuland adventurous story of their ancestor, Francisco Carvalho, a Portuguese explorer who just may have beaten Columbus to the New World. With the guidance of his grandfather’s obscure but inspired stories, Josie begins to find new ways of understanding his relationship to his family and to the world. |
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Leaving Fortusa $25.42 LEAVING FORTUSA by John Grant "A disabled US veteran from Iraq finds in Scotland a bizarrely distorted form of Fairyland and realizes he has lost his own country. A New Yorker learns how to discard the sad times from his life as around him society crumbles. A dream-research laboratory uncovers the true origin of our reality, a secret too dangerous to reveal . . ." The powerhouse dystopian novel by a master of fantastic literature. "Two children are taught to suppress their imagination. Armies travel back in time to conquer the worlds of the past, there to hold gladiatorial circuses. A man suffers the death penalty over and over for everyone else’s murders, so the victims’ families may have "closure" . . ." Ten episodes from a horrifying future, with the Decline and Fall of the American Empire as their backdrop. "Two karmic tempters dance through myriad different universes in search of ways to engineer the downfall of their enemies here. A rusted ferris wheel standing tall above the desert is a locus for barbarous religious executions. An old woman recalls her childhood loss of innocence about the world in which she lives . . ." In the great If This Goes On tradition, an impassioned assault on the seeds of destruction sown within our society. Searing prose conjures a nightmare vision you will never be able to forget. "A loner foraging in the graveyard of our civilization comes across what may be all that’s left of human literature . . ." One of the most astonishing novels of the new century’s first decade, LEAVING FORTUSA is also one of its most urgent. John Grant is author of some sixty books, of which about twenty-five are fiction, and hasreceived two Hugo Awards, the World Fantasy Award, the "Locus" Award, and a number of other international literary awards. Under his given name, Paul Barnett, he has written several further books and for a number of years ran the world-famous fantasy-artbook imprint Paper Tiger, for this work earning a Chesley Award (as Best Art Director) and a nomination for the World Fantasy Award. |
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Leaving the Fold $5.22 Anyone raised a Latter-day Saint belongs to the culture, no matter how they may try to escape its influence, observes Ure after conducting the eighteen interviews that comprise Leaving the Fold. While examining the cultural influences on well-known "Jack Mormons" — people who no longer actually participate in church functions — the author wanted to explore the issues that separate them from their common roots. Interestingly the participants expressed respect for the church, its leadership and members, but hinted at a disappointment and longing, a sense of futility in their search for a promised ideal. Ure wonders if this is ironically due to the concept of perfection taught by the church. The author chose men and women who were raised LDS but left when they were older, and whose life experiences allow them to render thoughtful analysis of their religious choices. Readers will realize that every Mormon — active or not — is in some ways similar, something Ure hopes both groups will come to understand about the other. |
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Leaving Lakehouse $22.86 In "Leaving Lakehouse" the author tells his own story from the perspective of one who sees the beauty in life without rose colored glasses, and also its limitations-including his own-face to face, without benefit of palliative myth. It is Everyman’s story without Everyman’s assurances, human mortality always an echo in ‘Leaving," but treated as a fact of the human condition not to be denied as part of the fabric of an individual history. ‘Lakehouse" becomes the focus for describing and accepting one’s place in reality, which is described with a recurring wry irony, and with occasional spurts of indignation, humor, and literary allusion. The author suggests that we might accept our place in nature as do other natural creatures: The birds’ comings and goings suggest private, almost silent, seemingly uncomplicated lives we are foreign to, an endless epic with no story to tell, time measured by quietly moving wings of a dozen lovely mourning doves passing. |
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Leaving Mama $14 Sometimes the only way to find your way home is to leave. Smoking weed while perched on top of her grandmother’s coffin in the middle of a downpour was not how Jillian had seen the trip from Oklahoma to Minnesota as happening. With flights canceled and the airline employees striking, she had no choice but to improvise and use her rock band’s hearse. And when Gran exits the hearse after the tires skid on a rain slick highway and the back door flies open, Jillian decides to make the best of the moment. Things only get worse when they arrive in Minnesota and her oldest sister, Shari, has a stroke at the memorial service. Toss in the fact that their grandmother had led two lives-there was a whole other family they’d known nothing about waiting for them in Minnesota-and life suddenly becomes more complicated. |
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Leaving Yesterday $3.95 Alisa Stewart feels like she’s lost two sons: her youngest to a terrible tragedy and her eldest, Kurt, to a life ruined by addiction. But now Kurt has checked himself into rehab and found a healing faith that seems real. It’s like he’s been raised from the dead. Then a detective arrives at Alisa’s door asking questions about a murder–the death of a drug dealer before Kurt entered rehab. Alisa fears losing her son again, and when she finds evidence linking him to the killing, she destroys it. Her boy is different now. He’s changed and deserves a second chance. But when another man is charged with the crime, Alisa finds herself facing an impossible choice: be silent and keep her son or give up everything for the truth. |
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Leaving Disneyland $3.46 Doc Kane is sixteen years into a twenty-year murder sentence. Days away from a parole hearing, he means to get out and start a new life as a Square John-a law-abiding citizen. Within the predatory confines of Tyburn Penitentiary, however, he has debts to pay. To start, Doc has his duties as a "heavy" in the D.C. Blacks, a gang that has protected him. Then there is his new cellmate, a young dealer doing life without parole whose ignorance of the prison’s code threatens them both. Finally, there are the guards: Sergeant Grippe, who is bent on "rehabilitating" Doc, and Raven, whose intentions are veiled but no less menacing. Beyond these dangers, Doc faces a deeper dilemma, one embodied by Dead Earl, a thumbless junkie and reminder of a past Doc would deny. The experience of sixteen years surviving in a violent prison has shaped Doc as profoundly as a river does its course. And if character is fate, Doc’s chances for a life on the straight-and-narrow are slim unless he can reshape himself. This, he discovers, is the real struggle. If he’s to have any hope for his future, he must first confront his past. |
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Leaving Cheyenne $3.95 In "Leaving Cheyenne," former private lawman Quint McCannon buys a ranch, hoping to leave behind the detective business as well as the memory of his murdered friend and partner, Ben Beadle. But the ensuing winter shows no mercy for a man hoping to make a fresh start, and his efforts at ranching are ruined. Placing his land on the selling block in the spring, McCannon is surprised by the arrival of United States Deputy Marshal Teddy Blue. The Marshal is searching for one of McCannon’s former lovers, Etta Landrow, a woman accused of murdering a judge’s son in Denver. His other shocking bit of news is that the judge has little patience or faith in the law, and has hired several elite mankillers to exact justice. McCannon must join the hunt hoping he can rind Etta first, and with her, the truth. In the process, he comes up against tornadoes, bandits, and corrupt lawmen, each only a hair’s breadth from ending McCannon’s riding days. |
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Leaving Patrick $3.95 Jane is a high-powered London attorney who doesn’t have time for her marriage. Patrick is a struggling restaurateur who wishes his wife would stay home more often and enjoy the pleasures of domesticity with him. They drift apart, and one day, Jane leaves Patrick. She wants more from her relationship than friendship, and so at age 36 she sets off on a journey to find what it takes to complete her life. Jane travels to India where she falls rapturously in lust with her cultured tour guide, Rajiv. Meanwhile Patrick falls for baby-faced American food critic Stella, who could lose him more than his peace of mind. She could lose him his restaurant business. Jane becomes the first female partner in her firm, and has her exotic lover, but discovers that what she thought she wanted doesn’t make her happy. Bit by bit, she dismantles the life she had left Patrick for. As both their lives spiral toward disaster, Patrick and Jane come to reassess the decisions they’ve made. Has Jane thrown away true love with both hands? Prue Leith is one of England’s top chefs, and her expertise shines through in her insider’s details of the restaurant business and the breathtaking food of India. In Leaving Patrick, Leith has created a well-written, poignant, and moving story with wry humor and intelligence about the real choices that adults have to make once they start taking stock of their lives. |
