Blue Books

More Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason

From Publishers Weekly
Rarely does a member of that unjustly maligned species, the librarian, attract the kind of attention Pearl did when she founded the first citywide reading program in Seattle in 1998. Many readers will seek her advice in this companion volume to Book Lust, which offers a wealth of new reading lists. (Many of the books on them, she acknowledges, are out of print—making for a good opportunity, she suggests, to visit your library.) The upshot is that these are not all classics—they're just books she or someone else really enjoyed reading, presented in more than 100 lists covering a delightful range of topics, from the biographical or geographical (Winston Churchill, Africa) to favorite writers categorized as "too good to miss" (including classics such as P.G. Wodehouse and contemporary writers like Jonathan Weiner and Walter Mosley). More idiosyncratic recommendations for the questing reader include "All in the Family" (books by writer dynasties); "Dick Lit" (her much better term for Lad Lit, for which, she admits, Nick Hornby has set a high bar); and "Tricky Tricky" (books that pull a fast one on you). If you're clueless about what to read next, you'll find something to pique your interest here. (May)
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From Booklist
In this sequel to her phenomenally popular Book Lust (2003), Pearl, former Seattle librarian and a continuing national book-talk host, dips further into her repertoire of have-read books (both fiction and nonfiction) and offers up another batch she is only too happy to talk about. As in the previous volume, she creatively arranges her titles into unexpected but certainly tantalizing and even provocative categories, this time presenting a whole new set of categories. From "Adapting to Adoption" to "Your Tax Dollars at Work: Good Reading from the Government (Really!)," and including "Nagging Mothers, Crying Children," "Science 101," and "Gender-Bending," Pearl suggests titles relevant to each category and gives a brief annotation for each. A self-confessed "readaholic," Pearl lets us benefit from her addiction. May she never seek recovery. Brad Hooper
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Moving Forward, Keeping Still:: The Gateway to Eastern Wisdom (Ariel Quote-a-Page Books)

Must Love Dragons (Immortally Sexy, Book 2)

From Publishers Weekly
A hungry, heartsick 11-foot-tall dragon takes center stage in Rowe's second paranormal tale of Manhattan's "Otherworld," fighting the loneliness of big-city apartment life with a wicked, claw-curling cybersex partner. Theresa Nichols, a winning supporting character from Rowe's Date Me Baby, One More Time, has for the past 200 years been stuck in the body of a dragon, due to an ill-advised drink from Mona, the Goblet of Eternal Youth (who lives in Theresa's apartment, disguised as an espresso maker). In order to meet her cyberlover, Zeke Siccardi, Theresa makes a deal with the Devil, a villain torn between world domination and his hunger for love ("Yes, I am Satan, and I deserve more than empty sex"), to turn her back into a woman for her date. Zeke, however, already knows Theresa's secret—he's an ex-dragonslayer, and he's been hired to find her. When it turns out Zeke's employer, another dragon named Lynam Peressini, wants Theresa dead, Zeke does the honorable thing, vowing to protect Theresa—if he can just suppress his imperative urge to kill her. Rowe keeps her strange island afloat with snappy patter, goofy good humor and enormous imagination. Strong but strange, this is one of those love-it-or-hate-it genre-twisters that will make readers either rabid for more or ready for a good old-fashioned Regency. (Nov.)
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From Booklist
*Starred Review* In this hilarious sequel to Date Me, Baby, One More Time (2006), Theresa Nichols, still stuck in dragon form, acts as interim Guardian of the Goblet. Knowing that she'll freak out the people of Manhattan if she leaves her apartment, Theresa entertains herself by having cybersex with a guy named Zeke. But now Zeke wants to meet her. Theresa wants to meet him, too, but in her present form, this is impossible, and she'll do anything, short of selling her soul to Satan, to regain her human body. Zeke Siccardi is equally determined. Now a private detective, this immortal is ready to put his bloody past as a dragonslayer behind him and become part of the modern world. Rowe's wacky secondary characters are back in full force: the shape-shifting Goblet with attitude; a lovesick Satan; Iris, the touch-me-not object of his affection; and Rivka, Satan's right-hand woman. Rowe's blissfully bizarre paranormal romance works well on its own, but libraries will want the entire series. Shelley Mosley
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Mystic Tarot:Cards and Book

Book Description
Beautifully designed new Tarot cards and the easiest-to-follow card interpretations ever make this ideal for the new beginner.

Nashville Country Lead Guitar

Product Description
Classic country guitar solos book by Larry McCabe

If you love the sound of a twangy, chicken-picked vintage Telecaster or Stratocaster guitar and want to learn the exciting lead guitar style associated with classic truck driving songs, drinking songs, and cheating songs, this book is for you. (The book is not for beginners; basic picking and chording skills are required before attempting these solos.)

The solos in this book sound like the breaks one might hear on classic country recordings by Merle Haggard, Buck Owens, Lefty Frizell, George Jones, and similar artists who defined the exciting honky-tonk sound of the 50s to late 60s, before rampant commercialism eliminated virtually all originality and feeling from popular country music.

Several hundred popular country recordings were researched to come up with the 25 chord progressions in this book. Each progression was found to be common to many songs. A solo incorporating various concepts and techniques was played over each progression. The result is an authentic-sounding collection of 25 country guitar solos through which various ideas can be analyzed. An ambitious and creative guitarist will find many opportunities for applying these ideas to real songs.

The book could have been named Learn Bakersfield Lead Country Guitar Solos (or something like that). The twangy, Fender Telecaster country guitar style actually emerged in Bakersfield, California, in the 1950s. With a 50s Tele (Telecaster) or 60s Tele (Telecaster) guitar and a vintage Fender Deluxe Reverb Amp, the Bakersfield Sound country musicians and bandleaders like Don Rich, Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, Roy Nichols, Lefty Frizzel, Red Simpson, Wynn Stewart, and others would eventually teach the Nashville guitar pickers a good deal about chicken picking and twangy country lead guitar playing.

Please note: This book is a 2007 reprint of Larry McCabe's Country Lead Guitar, formerly published by Mel Bay Publications.

Prerequisite Ability

• Ambitious early intermediate guitarist who wants to learn to play country lead guitar.
• Intermediate guitar player.

• Serious hobbyist guitarist.
• Flatpicking guitar players wanting to learn the electric country solo style.
• A gigging rock guitarist, blues guitarist, or jazz guitarist who wants to learn the electric country guitar picking style.
• Guitar teachers who teach electric lead guitar.
• Country guitar, blues guitar, and rock guitar players who want to expand their rhythm guitar skills and knowledge.

• Learn how to play Bakersfield Sound guitar, classic country lead guitar, Nashville guitar, honky-tonk guitar, chicken picking, etc.
• Explore the major pentatonic scale and the major scale on the guitar fingerboard.
• Practice country guitar solos with a CD.
• Study country chord progressions.
• Greater familiarity with guitar fingerboard.

Newbies' Money Guide : For Rookies and Late Starters

Source: Vista Vision, December, 1999.
FROM RATS TO RICHES

First, a series of tornadoes literally blew away the comfortable life Coleen Moore was living as a child. Then, her father was killed in a plane crash. What was left of her family huddled in a storm cellar for shelter, rats and all, for almost six months. Able to retire early because of the success of their investment strategies, she continued to share them with other "Late Starters". This became a book: The Newbies' Money Guide for Rookies and Late Starters.

Book Description
The Newbies' Money Guide: for Rookies and Late Starters is a heart-felt gift from the author. It's for all the people losing out on the life they want because of money mismanagement.

If you're a financial rookie, especially if you're getting a "late start" in saving and investing, you can learn some strategies that will save you heartache, bring you security, and help you create a better life for you and your loved ones.

First, the author invites you to put your money on your priorities, starting right now. If you examine how you're spending time, money and energy, you may be shocked at what you're promotingand neglecting.

Many of us know what to do, but cannot make ourselves take the necessary steps. This book explains why, but more important, outlines simple steps to deal with these "ETs" (Emotional Troubles) that sabotage our best intentions to straighten out our finances.

The author, in a humorous, conversational style, simplifies complex financial material. She has a straight-forward approach that is understandable but not condescending. For example, her chapter on "How Not to Ruin Your Children's Lives", a formidable subject, spells out how to help children learn about money the "millionaires' way". "What About Stocks?" tells you who needs stocks, how to pick them, and how to go about acquiring them. Since she knows people, and her subject, she goes into detail about using creativity instead of budgeting to get out of debt.

The reason this book speaks so directly to common problems is that it evolved from a file that Coleen started when she was counseling clients at Principal Financial Group. Her compassion for financial late starters and rookies drew people to her. She developed materials to deal with the challenges her clients were facing. Every chapter is "by popular demand", featuring the questions that came from her intimidated and overwhelmed customers.

She retired from selling insurance and investments, only to find that those she had helped kept referring others to her. Her "graduates" from what she calls "Money Makeovers"(c) insisted on the chapter on Emotional Troubles, because she had motivated them to take action when they had been too scared to begin.

Most personal finance books aim at your head only; this one reaches your heart, soul, and "funny bone", too.

Nightlife (Cal Leandros, Book 1)

Product Description
In New York, there's a troll under the Brooklyn Bridge, a boggle in Central Park, and a beautiful vampire in a penthouse on the Upper East Side. Of course, most humans are oblivious to this, but Cal Leandros is only half-human. His father's dark lineage is the stuff of nightmares-and he and his entire otherworldly race are after Cal.

He and his half-brother Niko have managed to stay a step ahead for three years, but now Cal's dad has found them again. And Cal is about to learn why they want him, why they've always wanted himfor he is

Official Tractor Blue Book 2007 (Official Tractor Blue Book)

Old Magazines with Year 2003 Price Guide

Book Description
Paper collectors in need of a good overview of aged magazine values and their market will gain tremendously supportive aid from the Old Magazines Price Guide. Although hundreds of thousands of magazines were printed throughout the early to mid-20th Century, a glimpse of at least a few of each major title is represented, along with important notes, pricing tips, special issue information, and dates of publication. 2003 Price Guide

On Dangerous Ground (Men in Blue) (Silhouette Intimate Moments, 989) (Intimate Moments,...

On the Eve of the Death of Michael Price

One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club)

Product Review
"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."

It is typical of Gabriel García Márquez that it will be many pages before his narrative circles back to the ice, and many chapters before the hero of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Buendía, stands before the firing squad. In between, he recounts such wonders as an entire town struck with insomnia, a woman who ascends to heaven while hanging laundry, and a suicide that defies the laws of physics:

A trickle of blood came out under the door, crossed the living room, went out into the street, continued on in a straight line across the uneven terraces, went down steps and climbed over curbs, passed along the Street of the Turks, turned a corner to the right and another to the left, made a right angle at the Buendía house, went in under the closed door, crossed through the parlor, hugging the walls so as not to stain the rugs, went on to the other living room, made a wide curve to avoid the dining-room table, went along the porch with the begonias, and passed without being seen under Amaranta's chair as she gave an arithmetic lesson to Aureliano José, and went through the pantry and came out in the kitchen, where Úrsula was getting ready to crack thirty-six eggs to make bread.
"Holy Mother of God!" Úrsula shouted.