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The Sleeping and the Dead
Gone, Baby, Gone
An Advancement of Learning (Dalziel & Pascoe Novel)
Envy
Written in Blood (Midsomer Murders - Featuring Inspector Barnaby)
Faithful Unto Death (Misomer Murders - Featuring Inspector Barnaby)
Miracle on the 17th Green
Chill Factor (Detective Inspector Charlie Priest Mystery)
Redemption Ark (Gollancz SF S.)
Third Cadfael Omnibus: "Sanctuary Sparrow", "Devil's Novice" and "Dead Man's Ransom"
A Wicked Deed: The Fifth Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew (The Chronicles of Matthew Bartholomew)
The House of the Vestals
Cat Fear No Evil (Joe Grey Mysteries (Paperback))
Murder in Mesopotamia: BBC Radio 4 Full Cast Dramatisation (BBC Radio Collection) [AUDIOBOOK]
Haunted (MIRA S.)
Peril at End House: BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation (BBC Radio Collection) [AUDIOBOOK]
Gagged
The House Sitter
A Christmas Journey
Rogue Male (Crime Masterworks S.)
Retribution
As Good as Dead
The Empty Hours
The Lover
The Third Person

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The Sleeping and the Dead
Ann Cleeves
Manufacturer: Pan Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0330488023

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A diving instructor makes a gruesome discovery in Cranwell Lakethe body of a teenager is found. As the police investigation gets under way in Cranwell, prison officer Hannah Morton is about to get the shock of her life. The teenager was her boyfriend, and she was with him the night he disappeared. The news report that a body has been found brings back dreaded memories from her past.

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Poems for those who care what is right.
Essential Poems for Our Time
A timeless and memorable collection of W. D. Ehrhart's poetry

Sleeping with the Dead
W. D. Ehrhart
Manufacturer: Adastra Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0977666700

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CONTENTS: Eleven poems ranging from the effects of fireworks on a war veteran to resurrecting the memory of an old love and finally burying it. None of these poems is about Ehrharts Vietnam experiences, but each is informed by those memories, whether listening to the president saying violence is not the answer while he is ordering missiles launched (Kosovo), or remembering that 9/11 changed the world similarly as did Sputnik where patriotism is called for or is called into question (Manning the Walls), or refusing to talk about escapist love (All About Love). Ehrharts voice is sure, his rhythms contemporary, his themes relevant and moving. EDITION: Limited to 390 handsewn copies letterpress printed from machine and handset Monotype Pabst Oldstyle onto archival Mohawk Superfine text with Classic Linen Graystone endwrapper and Royal Fiber Birch cover.

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Poems for those who care what is right........2007-05-04

Bill Ehrhart makes his readers confront their morality, that's right, morality . Many poets are into using poetry to get us to look at mortality. I think it is how they scare off the Mr. Death that hovers over their shoulder or in their closets. "Look, you readers, we are all in this thing and we will not get out alive. Did I say we, Ah yes! Well misery loves company." But not Ehrhart he has faced the reaper and seen him in the mirror and in the faces of his fellows. His acceptance of his own mortality allows him to use it as a tool to test the justice of our actions. He asks us to look at what we do to fellow humans, our poor fellows, our weaker fellows, our unfortunate fellows. He calls us to account with specifics. So his poetry is uncomfortable stuff. He has a fierce anger. The irony is that this most public poet is at his very best when he is private. Other reviews quote the title poem. Perhaps the most personal and the most fragile and mesmerizing in this chapbook. Which by the way is a wonderful piece of the bookmaker's art. I am pleased to have added it to my library.

Essential Poems for Our Time.......2006-07-19

In these essential, heartbreaking poems, W.D. Ehrhart reveals the underbelly of these dark days. He takes us to Vietnam, to Kosovo, to September 11, to Columbine. He refuses to turn away from hopelessness, from violence, from injustice and hypocrisy. These are, yes, political poems, but they're also gorgeous and literary and they do what the best art does. They show us the truth about ourselves, our world, and what it means to be human. In Ehrhart's refusal to turn away from darkness, he brings light. As he goes deeper into hopelessness, he finds hope. When it seems as if there is no way to go on, he goes on. Just look at these lines from the title poem: "here I am / married nineteen years and sorry only / that I've never had the chance to tell you / that it's okay, that I'm okay, / that no one could have saved me then, / not you nor God, that I don't love you / anymore, but hope that someone does." William Carlos Williams once said: "It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there." Ehrhart's poems bring us both the news and the heart, the facts of the world and the emotional, spiritual insights that just might help us all go on.

A timeless and memorable collection of W. D. Ehrhart's poetry.......2006-05-08

Sleeping With The Dead is a timeless and memorable collection of W. D. Ehrhart's poetry. Filled from first page to last with Ehrhart's remarkable style and progressive poetic resonance, Sleeping With The Dead is an twenty-four page, handsewn, elegant, showcased presentation. Sleeping With The Dead-- I dreamed about you again last night./This time, you were living in Tennessee,/on a horse farm, married, children/I think, it wasn't clear--but I finally/got you to see that I don't love you,/not like that: as if my world would end/without you in it.//O, to have been/so close, to have shared your bed, to have/felt like I'd been raised from the dead/after all those dead I slept with/every night. It almost drove me mad/to let you go.//But that was years ago,/married nineteen years and sorry only/that I've never had the chance to tell you/that it's okay, that I'm okay,/that no one could have saved me then,/not you or God, that I don't love you/anymore, but hope someone does.

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Sleeping With The Dead

Manufacturer: Finishing Line Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 193275508X

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Winner of the Finishing Line Press Prize in Poetry, No. 2

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Not sleeping, just dead
Charles E Alverson
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: 039525728X

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Not Sleeping, Just Dead
Charles Alverson
Manufacturer: H Hamilton
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Neither Dead Nor Sleeping 1920
May Wright Sewall
Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1432616064

Sleeping With The Dead: The Devil Comes to Kill, Steal and Destroy

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Sleeping With The Dead: The Devil Comes to Kill, Steal and Destroy
Jimmy Etheridge
Manufacturer: Infinity Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0741437627
Release Date: 2007-01-12

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This suspense filled book will speak to all walks of life. To those who are rich, poor, afflicted, or captive to some addition. We all make choices each day that leave lasting effects on ourselves and others. The choices you make each day and the way we treat others, do it for the right reason. Jimmy is a chosen, called disciple and messenger for Jesus Christ. He brings you a message through his book, but you must make your own choices and decisions.

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Neither dead nor sleeping,
May Wright Sewall
Manufacturer: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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Sleeping and the Dead
Anne Quinton , and Ann Quinton
Manufacturer: Severn House Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Board book

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ASIN: 072784668X

Sleeping With the Crawfish (A St. Martin's Dead Letter Mystery)

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New Orleans?
More Broussard & Franklin Please!
"Crawfish" is Hot!

Sleeping With the Crawfish (A St. Martin's Dead Letter Mystery)
D. J. Donaldson
Manufacturer: St Martins Mass Market Paper
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0312966814

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New Orleans?.......2000-11-13

I must admit that I picked up this book because it was written in New Orleans, and I love to read books in that setting. The fact that it was a forensic mystery was, I thought, a bonus, since I love forensic mysteries. Well, this book did disappoint me in all aspects. There is very little New Orleans flavour to the book at all, and the forensic information was extremely minimal. Not only that, but it wasn't even an exciting mystery. The character development was extremly weak.I did not enjoy this book and did not find it exciting to read. If you're looking for good forensics, try Kathy Reichs.

More Broussard & Franklin Please!.......2000-08-22

I have been reading DJ Donaldson's Kit Franklin & Andy Broussard mysteries since "Cajun Nights". I thought that first book would be a goof, a good-natured, silly mystery written by a hack - the cover was cheesy, the premise unlikely and the publisher was the dubious St. Martin Press, using their now-defunct "Mean Streets" imprint. But I bought it because I love New Orleans and I collect books set there. I was pleasantly surprised then, finding that the book was clever, well-written and worthy of a much better publisher.

It's been about ten years since then and I'm still reading. The writing has improved, the characters have matured and reading a new Donaldson book feels like going home to visit old friends. In this installment, Kit has left the Medical Examiner's office after having been kidnaped and nearly losing her mentor Andy to a deadly virus. Andy, in an attempt to bolster her spirits, cons her into doing one final task for the ME's office - go check out the fingerprints of a prison inmate. Oddly, the prints were discovered at a recent crime scene, which should be impossible.

Next thing you know, Kit has been run off the road, chased, threatened and generally taken for a ride. The twists and turns are both interesting and exciting, and it's nice to watch Kit get her confidence back, even though it means she makes some truly stupid mistakes.

As usual, Donaldson's writing is crisp and clean, with no nonsense or purple prose. His evocation of the Louisiana swamps is every bit as lovely and sinister as James Lee Burkes, without being as cloying and flowery. I recommend these and other Broussard/Franklin books.

"Crawfish" is Hot!.......1997-09-20

Last weekend, I was astoundingly lucky enough to stumble across an ARC of D. J. Donaldson's latest Andy Broussard/Kit Franklyn installment "Sleeping with the Crawfish" (obviously a play on the old gangster slang "sleeping with the fishes"). I had been waiting for this one to be released for about a year, so I wrestled out of the hands of the hapless shopper who was studying the back cover and bought it.

I am already a big fan of Dr. Donaldson's and I have enjoyed watching Kit and Andy develop over the past several years. This latest outing is undoubtedly the best of the series.

Kit has left the Medical Examiner's office (those of you who read "Louisiana Fever" will know why) and gone to work for a New Orleans photography gallery. Andy, in an attempt to get her to return, asks her help on an unusual investigation. He has found that the fingerprints of a dead burglar are an exact match for a convict who is still incarcerated.

What follows is a dark and suspenseful roller coaster ride exposing small-town corruption and big-time money. If you've read Dr. Donaldson's previous books, you'll love this one. If you haven't read any, this may not be a good place to start. It might be better to step back a few and catch up. At the very least, read "Louisiana Fever", soon to be released in softcover by St. Martin Press' "Dead Letters" imprint.

"Sleeping with the Crawfish" is due October 1st.

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