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The poems in this book are so funny that I can hardly believe it. I have never seen funnier poems. Check out poem titles like Apes are Fools and One Psuedo Psyco Mirror, which cracked me up. This is one book of poems to enjoy with your favorite libation. Get this book now.

Red-Hot Satin by Carole Buck
Silhouette Desire # 677 - November 1991

Hayley works at the Department of Justice as a researcher following the paper trail of crimes committed. Nick is an undercover agent for the Department and he's just come off a very intense case. He'd always meant to get to know Hayley better but it seemed they never ran into each other, until know. He convinces her to go to dinner with him and Hayley finds herself confiding in him that her mother's coming to town and that Hayley has to produce a fiancee, one that she's made up to get her matchmaking mother off her back. Nick volunteers to play the part, after all he's a master of disguise. The plan is to become a fiancee that Hayley's mother will dislike so much that she'll encourage Hayley to dump him and hopefully also put a stop to her meddling. And so the fun begins, as Nick takes out Hayley on dates as various characters from bikers to millionaires. Only Hayley loves the game and gets right into the role playing. On one of the dates, they run into a shaddy character Nick had tried to put away, and Nick has to resume that undercover role once again placing Hayley in danger.

This was a fun read. It's obvious Nick and Hayley are meant for each other and alot of fun watching them realize it too. The dangerous undercover scheme they get involved in adds an element of intrigue. Well done!

Red-Hot Satin won the 1990-91 RT Reviewers' Choice award in the Silhouette Desire category.

If one were to classify the 'Séance in B Minor' as a mystery thriller, one wouldn't be wrong, but one would hardly be capturing the essence of the novel - for the 'Séance in B Minor' is a thriller with a different kind of mystery. Beneath the stage on which its story unfolds there is a Numinous region that every now and then suddenly irrupts on to the stage in tones of orchestral brilliance.

Robert Schumann, spending his last days in an insane asylum, has visitations from the ghost of Schubert, which he describes in these haunting words:

"I shall fire these sheets with the flames of such music! Do you recall your last visit, Johannes? I spoke then of terrible music, the music of fierce angels pouring into my brain. It was too inhuman...impossible music... music turning into the shrieks of devils. But you'll never believe who has been visiting me lately. It is Schubert! He comes at night when I'm in bed. It's not a dream. By some strange power he speaks the music to me, and I understand...but I can't remember the notes to write them down. This music is so wonderful, more wonderful than anything now sounded on earth. The ideas are endless, the structural logic utterly leaping to unheard of vistas."

"Who else could it have been, my friend, but Schubert ...the ghost of Schubert?....As I once said, his name should only be whispered at night to the trees and the stars. With these gifts...onto this paper, I swear I shall capture those Schubertian miracles!"

A hundred and fifty years later, Allison Hart, researching into the deeper revelations of the distorted mind, comes across a bizarre painting by Gregori Benedict, a once renowned painter and now an inmate of the Lakewood Psychiatric Hospital, and it points to an uncanny connection with Schubert. As the story unfolds, we are taken through the fascinating worlds of Jungian archetypes, of primeval structures in the bicameral mind, of the melancholic writings of Thomas De Quincy, the synesthetic visions of Vincent Van Gogh, and of the Deep Realm from where inspired art beaks out into this world. The novel is a weave of the contemporary world and the great Mystery that underlies it, and there are two themes that one frequently comes across in it. The first - that inspired music informs us of the Divine - is reflected in these words of Professor Victor Kuhn spoken to a student of music:

"So...it's excitement you want. Thrills. The torments of lovelorn composers....But I ask you, is it possible that there are things in life that spring from higher elevations, so to speak? I am going to make a bold statement, and I want you to consider it with your full attention....I propose that Beethoven's Opus 61 is one of the profoundest adventures in which your mind and heart...your imagination...could ever be engaged. Heartache? Could the heart ache for something beyond the human beloved? For that source of being behind the ancient tears of a gray rainfall? Within that 'certain slant of light' that Emily Dickinson perceived?...With what Wordsworth meant when he wrote about 'a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling is the light of setting suns? These are... hyper emotions. Such, I propose, are worthier feelings than...soaking up the dregs of an unrequited affair with the heart's sponge?....Or you mentioned boredom -- have you ever challenged boredom?...gone deeply into it to see what strange things might lie behind its curtain? Beethoven is the intrepid sea-farer striking out into wild expanses of the spirit. What I am talking about is not for the faint of heart--this is extremely intense spiritual activity...to attempt a discovery about nature's inscrutable persona through the questing constructs of a musical inquiry.... "

The second theme revolves around the idea that insanity may be a loosening up of the constructs of the verbalising mind; that insanity may in fact hold a key to a higher realm. We find Allison wondering:

"What if insanity is not the complete absence of intellectual acuity and spiritual acumen that science makes it out to be?....What if, rather, it is in some imponderable fashion a state of hyper-reality?... the images surfacing from it being the ramifying pointers to some dynamic latency of the human mind?"

The 'Séance in B Minor' is a novel that one can race through over a weekend, but the mystery of the Numinous continues to linger in the mind. If I have resisted the temptation to give this book a 5-star rating, it is because the thriller-like narrative of Allison following the lead of the painting, which forms one thread of the novel, sometimes fails to live up to the anticipation built up by the other thread of the novel which is frequently bursting onto the story in radiantly wild orchestral tones. While this is the only shortcoming of the book, it is nevertheless a shortcoming. But there is a magic in the pen of Timothy Buck when he describes to us the music of Schubert: the exquisite strings of words are musical performances on their own, music coming to our listening minds synesthetically through the eyes instead of the ears:

"From deep in the basses, ten solemn notes move like priests across the black sky -- ten notes arriving from the uttermost reaches of consciousness. Other notes, coming forth for the lighter strings, are charged with an effervescent rhythm. A pair of delicate woodwinds begins to sadly beckon, as a thickening of the orchestral textures leads to stormier moments. Turbulence increases until peals of declamation are hammered into the sky's fabric....Then ...the horn alone to plead for calm. And the prayer is answered by cellos weaving a theme of utter beauty and peace. Violins take over, and the melody breathes a bouquet of transcendence. Then tempestuousness again rising on a propulsive motive builds energy into a febrile intensity... finally unleashing itself in rhythmic outbursts....The storm eases into the felicitous song of woodwinds and strings... until ...the return of the ten dark notes heralding the recapitulation. And then a brooding, weighty theme borrowed from the introduction is reshaped into a harrowing lamentation....A moment of reprieve .... Then puncturing shocks. And again the songs of sadness and blitheness, bringing finally a chilling peroration of paradoxes. Then silence and stillness upon the white lines..."

My husband and I love to camp and have done so since we started dating. We got this book to add insight to our endeavors durings our trips and it definitely added a bright side to our humor and technique. I hope you will enjoy!

This book is a good source for those interested in the life of the average antebellum/civil war girl. Although she lives on a plantation (her father owns about 8 slaves) she does not hold the same social status of other well read diarists (i.e. Mary Chestnut and Sarah Morgan). A careful read of this diary will cause many to change their outlook on 19th century women.

OVERLOAD by Linda Howard
Blackout! The entire Southeast was without power - but there was still more than enough electricity between Elizabeth Major and Tom Quinlan! They were stranded together in a Dallas high rise for the duration - and setting off enough sparks to light up the darkest night.

HOT COPY by Carole Buck
Hotshot newswriters Mitch Nelson and CHristy Kavanaugh had loved their way through the big blackout of 1977. So imagine their surprise when they were reunited to cover the great lights-out of '93. All thoughts of keeping things cool were doused along with the lights!

STEAM BATH by Suzanne Carey
The elevator didn't work and neither did the air-conditioning, so prim-and-proper Melisande Taylor was stuck in a sweaty office with the man not of her dreams - sex, irritating Joe Carbone. And Joe had a lot more on his mind than passing the time with boring conversation...

This book gives the reader the straight goods about the advantages and disadvantages of running your own business. From start to finish, this book answers any questions you may have regarding: setting up your business, creating a business plan, costs involved, finding your market and suppliers, and advertising advice. The sample forms, tables, worksheets, and checklists come in handy for developing your business. This book has helped me start my own business that has become quite successful over the last couple of years. This book is not just for students--it's for anyone who is interested in starting a business.

This is a very good tool to use to learn about coding and compliance.

It has short tests that are answered in the back of the book.

Any one that is looking to learn more about coding I would highly recommend this tool.

I like this book. It gives me many (but not as many as I wish) tongue twisters I can pratice. I wish the book had more content.

This is a most informative book about bobbin lace in the East Midlands during the second half of the 19th Century. Lavishly illustrated (the photograph of the lappets with ostriches in the design was worth the price of the book to me), with a scolarly text, this book is for the historian. No patterns included, but plenty of inspiration for the designer or maker of bobbin lace.